Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of plants, animals, human populations, diseases, cultures, and ideas throughout the world. The new worlds that had been discovered were a part of this Columbian Exchange, and were exposed to many new and foreign goods as well as people. The Americas, or New World, were faced with harsh treatment from Columbus and his crew, along with the rampant spread of new diseases that took a large toll on the Native populations. The Indies were also subject to these same factors. So, was the Columbian exchange an overall positive event for the Americas? While not justifying the cruelty of the Portuguese and Spaniards towards the Native Americans and Indians, I do believe that the Columbian Exchange was a positive event. The documents that I have read can be separated into three groups, including a group of people who believed the exchange to be negative, those who believed the Columbian Exchange to be positive, and those who described the effects of the Columbian Exchange on the New and Old worlds as neutral. An account of events that occurred during the Columbian Exchange that I would have liked to read, would have been one coming from a Native American.

Columbian Exchange- The Columbian Exchange was a way exchanging new resources between the new world and the old world. This impacted Europeans and Native Americans positively with the new materials now available, like technology, plants, and animals. There were some negative effects from these exchanges too, such as diseases. Made it easier to interact with other cultures.

The Columbian Exchange was an overall positive event for the New World. As people discovered new lands, they also discovered new plants and animals which they took back to their own countries. At the same time, explorers introduced plants and animals from the places they had sailed from. This was the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange were the exchanges of goods, ideas, disease, etc. between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres..

It is estimated that 60% to 90% of Native American tribes had died from new diseases brought from the Columbian Exchange from the Europeans. Numerous diseases such as the infamous smallpox were introduced to the Native Americans and were degrading to the population as the Europeans grew a type of immunity from the diseases unlike the Native Americans. Conflict between the Spanish and the Native Americans brought war which encourages diseases to spread through hand to hand combat. Cultures and tribes were on the brink of extinction, as European expansionism and imperialism succeeded in claiming land that was formerly the Native Americans. The mass genocide and epidemic of various diseases towards the Native Americans reach to new heights due to the Columbian Exchange as Europeans militants strived for land and gold at the cost of the Native American’s

When you are sitting in a fancy restaurant in Texas, tasting a delicious steak with a nice cup of coffee, do you know that before 1492, American people don’t even know what is beef and coffee. Nowadays, people’s diet is abundant. People in every part of the world can taste the food originated in other side of the world. This is due to one of the most significant ecological events in human history called the Columbian Exchange. According to Nunn Nathan and Qian Nancy, “the Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492” (Nathan and Nancy, 2010). It was so spectacular that has left both positive and negative impacts in each side of the world.

In “The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas,” the authors point out that there were two channels in the transfer of food crops. One are unknown tropical spcies from the New World, which has affected on the growth of local cuisines. They are rich in calories and improving taste and vitamin intake. Otherwise, the Old World also brought certain crops. America gave a plenty of land that helped response the high food demand, and became the main supplies for Old World markets. In this way, they unknowingly carried many Old World diseases, such as smallpox, meales, and other diseases. They were unfamiliar to the Native America and they never had developed immunity to such disease. By the early 1600’s, the population of Indians decreased nearly 90%. Furthermore, Columbus’ sailors encountered sexually with native women Indians so that they brought the deadly bacteria unwittingly back to Europe. This reason led slavery system traded from Africa for labor requirement for cotton and tobacco plantation

Columbus made a voyage to a new world and new people. Trade and exploration continued into the Enlightenment. The visits and trade increased resulting in many instances of virgin soil diseases. This resulted in the Columbian Exchange. Not only food and knowledge were exchanged but also new diseases and medicines. The most notable medicine discovered in the Americas was cinchona bark to treat malaria. Smallpox, measles, influenza, chickenpox, typhoid and typhus killed many indigenous people in the New World. The New World sent syphilis back to the Old World as shown in the pdf of the Columbian Exchange.

The Columbian Exchange was a huge deal for Europe. Traders were going back and forth, from Europe to the New World, and back. This means that the traders were bringing new things, such as food and ideas. Food such as turkey, pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and more went from the Americas, or the New World, to the Old, or Europe. Things such as onions, bananas, livestock, and grains went from the Old to the New. However, one of the biggest downsides was that the Europeans brought diseases, such as smallpox, whooping cough, measles, and more to the New World. This ultimately destroyed the Native population, since they were not used to these diseases. The Columbian Exchange also brought along another horrible downside, the beginning of the Slave Trade,

he Columbian Exchange had a very significant impact on the Americas and Europe between 1492 and 1750. This exchange gave civilizations the opportunity to not only migrate but develop and explore more of the world through trade, interactions, and discoveries. If it hadn’t been for the Columbian Exchange a lot of resources would not have been as widespread and animals wouldn’t exist as much in places as they are now.

The Columbian Exchange began as people from the Old World and New World began to interact with one another. Natives had many valuable items such as gold and corn, which contributed to one of the many positive effects the New World had on the Old World. Population rapidly increased in Europe and Africa due to new crops, and eventually caused China’s population to triple (America’s History, pg43). The English settlers brought wheat, apples, and grasses for the livestock to graze on. One of the less desirable results of the Columbian Exchange was the exchange of diseases. Along with domesticated animals, which enriched the Native diet, Europeans brought smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever (The Columbian Exchange, pg1). These diseases devastated Native populations as countless people fell at the hands of new illnesses. Thousands died of mysterious disease, and it got to the point where tribes ran out of people to make fires, fetch water, and bury the dead (The Columbian Exchange, pg1). Native suffering did not stop there. White brutality, alcoholism, and the killing and driving off of game also took a toll on them. While the colonists did suffer from American diseases such as syphilis and Chagas Disease, the deaths from that are insignificant to Native

The biggest exchange that has ever happened in the world was beginning to form from Christopher Columbus’s findings and Pope Alexander’s grant of approval of colonization of Spain over the New World. As it became known as the Columbian Exchange in honor of Columbus, it was the exchange of different plants, animals, microbes, and people across the Atlantic Ocean to the New and Old Worlds. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sent out many explorers to the New World which caused both positive and negative effects. The exchange of goods with the Indians in the New World was not just to trade products but to also transplant them from Africa and Europe to the Americas and also the other way around. Some exchanges were intentional, like the

The New World was surrounded in mystery. The hope of prosperity, a new start, or a chance to solidify a legacy drove thousands to shed the “Old World” they knew. This action of embarking beyond the familiar boundaries and happening upon a land untouched by the rest of the known word was pure chance. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the shores of Guanahauni and the world would never be the same. The effects of the Columbian Exchange are still evident in today’s geographic landscape.

The impact of the Columbian Exchange on most people in the Americas, Europe, and Africa were new diseases, a new way of life, and decreases in population due to the amount of economic decay. The Columbian Exchange was the creation of colonies in the Americas that led to the exchange of new types of food, plants, and animals. These types of exchanges (plants, animals, and food) also took place between Europe and the Americas. The Columbian Exchange originally began due to explorers who spread and collected new plants, animals, and ideas around the globe as they traveled. Due to the occurrence of the Columbian Exchange, there was a significant alteration in the ecology of most of the world.

The Americas “had a very significant decline in population, losing somewhere around 30 million people,” from European diseases in 1500 to 1700. These diseases killed up to 90% of Native Americans in the New World. The Spanish purposefully gave the Native Americans blankets and clothes that had been used by someone who had previously died of smallpox. The Spanish also put diseases in the rivers that the Native Americans used to drink. After so many Native Americans died of disease, it was very easy for Europeans to conquer and colonize the land. They had already killed millions of natives and wiped out entire civilizations. Because it was easy to set up colonies in the New World, the English colonies eventually came together to form the United States and a very powerful country as it is today. Cleary, disease was also a big impact of the Columbian Exchange. Most diseases spread from the Old World to the New World. Syphilis, however, a disease that created a painful blistering rash, and traveled back to Europe from the New World by sailors. Disease had a big impact by killing millions of innocent

In an analysis of the effects of exploration, an obvious outcome is the exchange of diseases between the Old World and New World. Often, it is the illnesses brought to the Americas that are detailed in great length as they had a more severe consequence: the elimination of 80 to 95 percent of the native population. However, The Curious Expedition is told exclusively from the explorers’ point of view, which highlights their experience. In the game, the two diseases they can suffer from are malaria and an unspecified jungle fever. Malaria is classified as an Old World disease as documentation exists confirming it was present in ancient Greece and there is no evidence of it in the Americas before the age of exploration. It flourished when brought