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Positive Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

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In 1492 Christopher Columbus and his voyagers set sail because Columbus wanted to find a new route to Asia and to prove that the world is round and not flat. But along his journey he had discovered new some new islands,which lead to the start of the Columbian Exchange, the Columbian exchange was between the Old World (Europe, Africa) and the New World ( North and South America). The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of plants,tobacco,food,disease and so much more. The Columbian Exchange had both a negative and positive change on the people’s life who lived in those continents. During the Columbian Exchange there was an exchange of many types of foods. The Old World exchanged Bananas,citrus fruits,peaches, sugar cane,grapes,coffee beans. They exchanged lots of foods with the New World, the New World exchanged corn, , tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins and bunch more. The Columbian Exchange was not just all about the exchange of food. They also had an exchange of native plants. The two most important plants that were exchanged was maize, and potato plants.
The Columbian Exchange was also an exchange of many types of diseases, they had many types of diseases that caused people to start to die. The people in the New World didn’t know about the disease that were being exchanged due to just getting touched but someone from the old world, some diseases that the Old world brought over was chicken pox, measles, smallpox, whooping cough, malaria, typhus and many more. They gave

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