The Columbian Exchange : The Old World's Effect On The Old And New World

- The Columbian Exchange was a worldwide transfer of plants, animals, and diseases. Before Columbian Exchanged certain foods were not in European meals such as, corn, potatoes, and different kinds of beans – (kidney, lima), peanuts, and peppers. The same for the Native Americans, certain foods were not a part of the culture such as, rice, wheat, barley, oats, melons, Kentucky bluegrass, and dandelions. The diseases the European’s as well as the slaves carried over, they effected the Native Americans greatly and caused millions to die. These diseases consisted of smallpox’s,

There is also a huge spread of diseases brought between the new world and old world. The old world brought over cholera, influenza, malaria, measles, and smallpox. The Europeans considered illness as a consequence of sin. The Indians whom were non-Christian were often considered sinners because they constantly getting sick. Those who were ill often were punished. The Native Americans had no natural resistance to the diseases and the population declined over centuries. The Inca Empire decreased by millions in 1600s. This caused for Europeans to look to Africa and began importing African slaves to the Americas. Once the African slaves began coming to the American they brought over malaria

In the 1400’s - 1700’s the Columbian Exchange had begun following the voyage of Christopher Columbus. On his famous voyage, Columbus found the Americas a new land that no one discovered. This voyage sparked the start of the Columbian Exchange a huge transfer of animals, plants, technology and human populations. The Columbian Exchange positively affected the world because it brought many new crops and foods to the Americas and Europe. Along with new foods, it also brought new animals and religion to the Americas. Although the Columbian Exchange brought many positive items, it also brought diseases like small pox and measles and contributed to slavery.

The Columbian Exchange, beginning in 1492 with Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, was a global trading standoff between the Old World and the New World. Plants, animals, and diseases were being traded fervently between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The global and social changes made during this exchange would leave a lasting impression on the Americas in the years that followed.

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

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 Columbian Exchange marks a big turning point in American history because it introduced new diseases, plants, animals, and changed the global economy between Europe and North America. When the Europeans arrived in North America, the Natives were not ready for their coming. The Europeans brought with them many diseases including Smallpox, Syphilis, Polio, Hepatitis, and Encephalitis. The Native Americans had no immunity to these diseases so their population was quickly decimated. The diseases brought by the Europeans were also very communicable which made the disease spread much faster. Both Europeans and Native Americans suffered from the diseases that were spread between the two worlds, but Europeans didn’t undergo

The Columbian Exchange was a time when the Europeans and the Native North Americans exchanged many cultural and physical ideas and items from both the New World and Old. The Europeans gave the Natives a sense of civilization when they were given a written alphabet, farming capabilities, new warfare technology, and improved building techniques. This invasion of culture gave the Europeans room to spread their knowledge of Christianity and allow them to attempt conversion of the Natives. By teaching the Natives how to read and write a European language, the Europeans could now more easily communicate and trade with the people of the New World. Giving the Natives the use of a plow for their farming techniques, gave the Europeans access to endless

The Columbian Exchange began after the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Western Hemisphere across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. The Columbian exchange is the exchange of people, animal, plants, and diseases between the Old World and New world. Many of those things went to the Old World which was Europe conversely many things came to the New World, the Americas, as well. Although both worlds benefitted from the Columbus Exchange, in reality the Old world benefitted more.

The Columbian Exchange was a widespread transfer of plants, animals, human population, technology, ideas and disease between the Old World and the New World in the 15th and 16th centuries. “After 1492, human voyagers in part reversed this tendency. Their artificial re-establishment of connections through the commingling of Old and New World plants, animals, and bacteria, commonly known as the Columbian Exchange, is one of the more spectacular and significant ecological events of the past millennium (Crosby).” Europe was considered as the Old World and the New World considered to be the Americas. They were each given these names because of the continental shifts that separated the giant land mass making it into two. The Columbian Exchange started after Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas in 1492.

Christopher Columbus changed the Old World in 1492 by accidently sailing to a new land, which was thought to be India but was actually the Americas. He soon found that the goods in the New World were not found in the Old World, and that the New World didn’t have certain goods like the Old World did. People started to exchange goods from the New World to the Old World, and the Old World to the New World. This process was called the Columbian Exchange, and it continued to happen for centuries. When the term, “When Worlds Collide”, is used, it means the exchanging of goods through the Columbian Exchange between the peoples of the New and Old Worlds.

The Columbian Exchange is non-fiction book written by Alfred W. Crosby JR. It illustrates the important events that transpired when Columbus came to America in 1492. I initially chose this this book because I wanted to know more about Europe's effects on America, and how Columbus altered the flora and fauna of America for better and for worse. As I started to read further into the book I immediately was captivated by all the information that was hidden within the text.

The way of life significantly changed for the Native Americans after Europeans imposed the Columbian exchange into the New World. Along with the exchange of livestock and plants came unprecedented and unintentional deadly diseases that, in turn, practically wiped out the Native American population as a whole (textbook, 19). The decimation of the population occurred at alarming rates, which affected the trade of products between countries. The natives were not massacred by the popular belief of guns and knives, but 95% of the indigenous population was killed by exposure to European disease, like smallpox and the sheer epidemic of it (PBS). The Columbian Exchange brought on by the Europeans was to blame for the countless fatalities of Native Americans. The exchange was altered because of diseases that reshaped the Columbian Exchange as a whole, meaning infecting and spreading illness from livestock, crops growing without a means of processing or distribution, and an economical instability regarding wealth and lifestyle in other parts of the world. This began when the natives were incapable to work due to the crippling ailments that onset in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For all of these reasons, the Columbian Exchange was made more difficult in exchanging goods from the New World to Europe, South America and Africa.

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 Columbian Exchange was the introduction of the New Age of Exploration. Therefore, it was a turning point in history because it reshape the way people lived across the world. There were many positive and negative aspects over the Exchange between the Old and New World. The introduction of crops, animals, and diseases played a big factor in the European Conquest over Native American that led to many changes in society. The Europeans headed west in search of new land for them to settle in and conquest. When the Europeans first introduced the domesticated animals to the New World, the Native Americans were especially surprised on the exportation of cattle, horses, and pigs were welcome to a new environment. Consequently, it was not easy for