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Columbian Exchange Consequences

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Consequences of the Columbian Exchange Essay
The Columbian Exchange, named after Christopher Columbus, was the trading of new foods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New World in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. While the Columbian Exchange is often applauded for its exchange of goods between the Old and New World, the unintentional exchange of diseases from the Old to New World, as well as New to Old World, quickly ravaged the populations of Europeans and Native Americans.
The disease that devastated the New World in the Americas the most was smallpox. Symptoms of the disease include high fever and vomiting, with skin lesions appearing after three to four days. Smallpox killed off as much as ninety percent of the native

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