The Columbian Exchange: A Comparative Study

The Columbian Exchange was a time period where there was cultural and biological exchanges such as crops, disease, and animals. Ever

Great job on your post! The diseases that killed off many in the New World was incredibly sad. Do you think that the lives that were taken through disease is worth having the trading system all together? Sometimes, we have to sacrifice a few for the greater good. I agree, the Columbian exchange had a huge impact on world history! Without it I do not think we would be the country we are today! Becoming a country with power was so important to help make America where it is today. Thank you for writing great answers to the questions! You had really good points!

The Colombian Exchange was an extensive exchange between the eastern and western hemispheres as knows as the Old World and New World. The Colombian exchange greatly affects almost every society. It prompted both voluntary and forced migration of millions of human beings. There are both positive and negative effects that you can see from the Colombian Exchange. The Colombian Exchange explorers created contact between Europe and the Americas. The interaction with Native Americans began the exchange of animals, plants, disease, and weapons. The most significant effects that the Colombian Exchange had on the Old World and New World were its changes in agriculture, disease, culture, and its effects on ecology.

Sixteenth-century Europeans introduced horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, wheat and, coffee, sugar cane, numerous fruits and garden vegetables, and many species of weeds, insects, rodents, and disease to America. In the next century, enslaved Africans carried rice and yams with them across the Atlantic. African slaves desired to come to America to get an opportunity to own land after the contract which lasts about 5-7 years. The roles of African slaves moved on to the southern colonies changed during 1607-1750 and their importance relied on economic, geographic, and social factors.

The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vise versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and also diseases to the New World.

Christopher Columbus once said, “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” His journey to the west unfolded many possibilities which started the Age of Discovery and the Age of Exploration. Endless possibilities came about and the new land became one of the fastest developing countries in the world. The world became a better place when Christopher Columbus found the new world because new trade expanded the market, the economy grew and proof of land was discovered which sparked curiosity in explorers. The commence of the Americas started with a hopeful explorer who turned out to make one of the greatest discoveries that ultimately changed the world.

The controversial scholarly journal of Robert S Wolff explores the history of the first trade encounters between the Portuguese in Africa and Asia, controversy lying in its separation from the Western narrative. Throughout the article, the author is trying to figure out the motives or other considerations playing a role behind the actions of Portuguese and other Europeans, such as choosing violent ways of making a profit in the lands of Africa and Asia, rather than using the existing trade networks, to emerge as the world ruler. In his view, Europeans had claimed themselves to be the “center of the world” way before they have risen to that title. European countries were looking for profitable trade in wealthy lands full of gold, consequently lack of resources and other valuable goods became a barrier to their success in the already existing channels.This is seen in da Gamma’s first encounter with the local ruler of Calicut, where his gifts were considered substandard to that of the poorest merchant, as seen by the local advisor.

The trade of biological and cultural aspects defines The Columbian Exchange, also called the Great Biological Exchange, for the first time Europeans decided to connect with the Western Hemisphere. This was important because the Europeans actually gained more by taking advantage of the Indians; animals, plants, and diseases, these transactions marked a whole new beginning in the history of America. Two isolated parties explored their differences, and by that, they enriched their biological and cultural lives.

Many years ago, there was a world drift that carried the Old and New Worlds apart, which made a split between the North and South. The separation lasted so long it caused the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the Atlantic and vipers on the other. After 1492, human voyagers had their artificial establishment of connections through the Old and New World plants, animals, and bacteria, which was known as the Columbian Exchange. The exchange is the ecological events of the past millennium.The Columbian Exchange had a widespread exchange of animal, plants, culture including slaves, diseases, and ideas between the eastern and western hemispheres. The exchange was the most significant event concerning ecology, agriculture, and culture in history. The Europeans were the first who touched the shores of the Americas. Old World crops such as wheat, barley, rice, and turnips had not traveled west across the Atlantic. The New World crops such as maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc had not traveled east to Europe. Americas did not have horses, cattle, sheep, or goats, or animals of the Old World. The New World had no relations with the animals that were part of the Old World. The New World did not have the pathogens associated with the Old World’s populations of humans and creatures like chickens, cattle and mosquitoes. There were the germs that carried smallpox, measles, chickenpox, influenza and malaria.

The discovery of the New world or America in the year 1492, and The Columbian Exchange it played a significant role on bring resources to various parts of the world. It brought the exchange of various resources like plants, animals, and diseases across the world. The year was 1492 is when Christopher set sail and put in motion The Columbian Exchange or also known as The Great Exchange. The Columbian Exchange affected the geographic location with the trading routes with Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. Also, The Exchange affected the economic with various countries with the trading. Finally, it affected the social change that made us the county we are to this day. With this exchange set forth the trading of various

The Pequots in Connecticut River Valley did not want the whites expanding onto their land. The whiles destroyed their towns and left the remaining survivors of the Pequot tribe to be sold as slaves. This represented a power shift from the populist Native Americans to the English and led to the opportunity for more Puritan expansion.

There were many new trade goods entering the world market during the sixteenth century because of the use of ocean trade and travel not just land trading. Unlike the earlier process of trading the Columbian exchange involved trading with lands with very different climates, plant life, diseases, and animals. Although all trade during the Colombian exchange was determined by the trading posts of countries and who ruled what areas. The big two trading objects so to say during this time was the trading of slaves and the distribution of diseases and pathogens from trade.

During the establishment of the New World, blacks imported through the Columbian Exchange to North America arrived to fulfill the labor needs in the Southern colonies. As these servants became socially subordinate to their white plantation owners, racial divisions took shape in colonial society (New World Labor Systems). Legislative action taken to deprive black individuals of their rights and privileges arose in the 1660s in the Chesapeake colonies. The practice of slavery grew and prospered under the support of white, Southern plantation owners in the newly established United States. The questionable morality of slavery was questioned during the Civil War, which divided the United States into the Union and the Confederacy. Following its

The encounter is a term used to describe the collision when Europeans came into contact with indigenous Americans in 1492. The encounter had many demographic, social, and political effects on Europe and the Americas. The Europeans discovered the Americas when in search of gold and glory and they set up forced labor systems. After the initial encounter, the Native Americans and Europeans began to exchange ideas, crops and goods. Through these ideas of mercantilism the Columbian exchange developed. The Columbian exchange was an international exchange of food, disease, and manufactured products. The encounter had many positive and negative impacts on both regions. In 1492 the encounter between the Americas and the Europeans developed. These two regions differed in their population were differently affected. The Europeans population greatly increased due to the influx of food they received because through trade with afro Eurasia. The Native Americans population greatly decreased because the Europeans introduced many new diseases when they conquered the Americas. These two regions were similar in that due to the encounter economic prosperity between both regions increased due to trade and businesses flourishing. The encounter had a greater long last impact on Europe than the Americas because its economic and demographic impacts outweighed the Americas impacts.

I also found the Geographic theory interesting, geography plays a major role on the way we trade goods. Some nations are much easier to move through while others make it dangerous and nearly impossible to transport. The spread of the disease also played a role when the conquistadores came the Mexico. Europe was an already thriving nation and where exposed to many diseases do to the daily interaction with animals, his made I the spread of diseases easy, whether the conquistadores did it deliberately or not. I disagree that cultural and religious divide come from superstations. I agree that cultural and religious dived are an influence on development and growth, ever nation is different as every religion is different, once that barrier get passed,