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The Columbian Exchange: Diseases Between Europeans And Native Americans

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The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of things that range from goods/products, animals, slaves, and even diseases between the Europeans and the Americas(old world to new world). Europeans would bring cows, guns, and horses to exchange with native Americans for special kinds of fur, beads and plants. The people who were most affected was the new world due to having live stock such as pigs, cows, and horses that later became a very important to native Americans. but at a price. the new world was also introduced to new diseases never seen or heard from before. Small pox was one of them that wiped out 90% of people.

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