Negative Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange began as people from the Old World and New World began to interact with one another. Natives had many valuable items such as gold and corn, which contributed to one of the many positive effects the New World had on the Old World. Population rapidly increased in Europe and Africa due to new crops, and eventually caused China’s population to triple (America’s History, pg43). The English settlers brought wheat, apples, and grasses for the livestock to graze on. One of the less desirable results of the Columbian Exchange was the exchange of diseases. Along with domesticated animals, which enriched the Native diet, Europeans brought smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever (The Columbian Exchange, pg1). These diseases devastated Native populations as countless people fell at the hands of new illnesses. Thousands died of mysterious disease, and it got to the point where tribes ran out of people to make fires, fetch water, and bury the dead (The Columbian Exchange, pg1). Native suffering did not stop there. White brutality, alcoholism, and the killing and driving off of game also took a toll on them. While the colonists did suffer from American diseases such as syphilis and Chagas Disease, the deaths from that are insignificant to Native

The Columbian Exchange began soon after Christopher Columbus returned from his voyage to the Americas, which he believed to be India. As he returned to Spain, the Columbian Exchange soon began with the exchange of items from the Old to the New World. Some of which brought negative and positive effects to the various regions of the Old and New World. Of the various items traded, sugar was among the items brought from the Old to the New World, specifically to the Americas. Due to this new crop a new economy began. For the Europeans, because they were able to set up the sugar plantations due to the decreased population brought on by disease, their settlements were able to flourish.

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 exchange between Europe and the New World, also known as the Columbian Exchange, had many positive and negative outcomes. When the Europeans came across the New World, they brought many new discoveries to the people of the New World; some amazing and some disastrous. In reverse, when the Europeans arrived at the New World, the natives (also known as the Indians) had many things that had yet to be discovered by the people of the Old World.

When you are sitting in a fancy restaurant in Texas, tasting a delicious steak with a nice cup of coffee, do you know that before 1492, American people don’t even know what is beef and coffee. Nowadays, people’s diet is abundant. People in every part of the world can taste the food originated in other side of the world. This is due to one of the most significant ecological events in human history called the Columbian Exchange. According to Nunn Nathan and Qian Nancy, “the Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492” (Nathan and Nancy, 2010). It was so spectacular that has left both positive and negative impacts in each side of the world.

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.

While the Europeans had been exposed to Syphilis in the New World, they brought a myriad of diseases with them to the New World. Influenza, malaria, measles, and various other sicknesses caused localized outbreaks for the Native Americans,

Imagine being in a ship, under the deck, with no way to get out. The ship reeks of feces and sickness. You can only move a short way to go to the bathroom, the bathroom being a bucket. Wouldn’t you also give up on life altogether? This was the fate of every slave on the slave trade ships. Many tried to stop eating and stop living, but were whipped for doing so. It was a disgusting scene that caused so many deaths and a lot of darkness. This was a part of the Columbian exchange. If it weren’t for this exchange then the slave trade wouldn’t have started and become so huge.The Columbian exchange is detrimental because diseases spread quickly, the slave trade started, and many people died due to it.

The Columbian Exchange that occurred in the Western Hemisphere subjected America to extensive changes that would fundamentally change the people that lived there, the people that would come to live there, and the land itself. In fact, the America that we know today has been shaped by the events that took place hundreds of years ago during the Columbian Exchange. As European people brought their culture and values to the Americas, it started to combine and mix with the cultures and values already established there, changing both Europeans and Indians in admittedly small, but significant ways. While this can be considered a positive point of the Columbian Exchange, in its entirety, the Columbian Exchange could be considered a disaster, especially for the natives that lived in America before the Europeans came to claim it. Not only did Indians suffer at the hands of European diseases that we completely foreign to them, killing off millions and changing the Indian demographic forever, but the world that they grew to be so familiar with changed around them.

The Europeans brought multiple diseases to the New World including smallpox, chickenpox, the flu, and yellow fever.

The Columbian Exchange was a major event in history that helped shape our world today. It was named after Christopher Columbus, who sailed from Europe looking for India, but instead found the Americas. The Exchange had many positive results like the spread of food, ideas, and technologies. Populations all over the world were able to grow. However, the Columbian Exchange also came with numerous negative results, such as the spread of invasive species, devastating diseases, and slavery.

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.

Although Columbus's revelation of the New World to the Old World caused deadly diseases to both hemispheres, a loss of preservation of native American culture in the New World, and the unhealthy effect of tobacco in the Old World, it made an overall positive impact in lasting terms by the introduction of religion and horses and cattle in the New World and the new agriculture advancements and alpacas. The Eastern-Western hemisphere encounter was obviously positive in the Western hemisphere because of the fact that most of us here would have never been born, but the introduction of religions made a lasting impact. Most Europeans were religious and wanted to share their faith with the natives. Some people also came to escape religious

Country will take the advantages from the demographic bonus if it can ensure all of the productive ages getting the suitable works. However the positive impacts for some developing contries which take a rarely good chance of demographic bonus by taking into account of plentiful natural resources that even have not been utilized yet. Developing countries nowadays has a conducive and encouraging situation such as the political stability and the economic strength that will constitute one of a few countries in the world that continues to obtain extensive boosts to their per capita incomes until 2030 and beyond as a consequence of to their changing age structures. Poverty may be compose as a consequence of a more favourable distribution of family

Food and crops, such as maize, potatoes, tomatoes, and sugar cane had a very big impact to the New World in helping to feed more people. These crops and food were a great find, considering people in the new world lived in treacherous places, such as the Mayans, but they found crops that were easy to grow. Tobacco, sugar, coffee and the many other New World crops became popular all over the world and brought more Europeans to Central America. Another positive for Europeans from the Columbian Exchange was the introduction of new medicines from the New World such as quinine for Malaria, “...exploration and colonization of this vast tropical regions of these continents was aided by the New World, discovery of quinine the first effective treatment for Malaria.” (pg 164 of The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas). Disease (along with slavery and war) was one of the huge negatives of the Columbian Exchange, because European diseases killed millions of Native Americans who did not have immunity to them. However, there are many diseases in the world, such as smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria and, although you could argue that if the Europeans had never come to the New World these diseases might not have come either, with its plentiful resources and its creative population the two civilizations would have eventually met, so this seems unlikely.