The Columbian Exchange

On the other hand, the Europeans never in their life saw iguanas, armadillos, anacondas in real life, nor the Indians knew what horses, pigs, and chickens were; of course, after the exchange, the Americas were full of these interesting animals from the European culture (Shi and Tindall 37). Pigs, cows, and horses were a new beginning to the Americas,

When the Europeans explored the Americas, they were introduced to new plants, foods, and animals, as well as riches and land. Foods such as corn, white and sweet potatoes, beans, tomatoes, cacao, fruits,

In the new world, Europeans encountered indigenous plant foods cultivated by Native Americas. These plants were potatoes, beans, corn, tobacco, and cocoa. The potato is especially important because it’s known for one of the main foods for Ireland. The European’s influenced oats and barley etc. Domesticated animals as pigs, chickens, sheep, and ox were also brought to the Americas. Horses were also brought to the new world which was a new tool for hunting and used for military.

During the exchange of goods and people moving to the new world brought sickness and diseases. The most common diseases the Old World brought were smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, influenza, & chicken pox. The most destructive disease out of all the ones brought to America were the smallpox. Small pox is a contagious, disfiguring and a deadly disease. The small pox started with the animals, and once the animals started being brought over and the disease was then transferred on to the

Millions of years ago according to scientist the whole world was one large mass called Pangea. When this mass began to split, it divided the Americas from the Eastern World along with the people on it. This resulted in tens of thousands years apart from one another which led to different developments on each continent. After all these years though a man named Columbus’s discovers the Americas in 1492. As soon as he took

European crave for spices was immense. It would drive merchants to seek out trade routes. The Colombian Exchange which commenced after Colombus landing in America, was the exchange of goods, resources, and ideas between the New World and the Old World. From Europe, Asia, and Africa many different species of animals were brought into the lives of Native Americans in the New World. Cattle, pigs, and horses being some of the most influential. Sugar and Coffee would also tremendously impact the lives of Native Americans as the remaining amount that survived small pox disease would be to work in the fields cultivating these popular crops. A few crucial plants that came from the New World were the cacao bean, as Europeans would begin to develop a liking for chocolate and other consumer goods later on, the highly addictive Tobacco would be dispersed though out the nation as well. This exchange system would prove to be a huge turning point as Spain, Portugal and later England, France, and the Dutch would come out to take their piece of this new land. Compared to 1517 these discoveries would change the lives of just about every European for the better, as it was the nobles who funded the expeditions for the search of new goods by intellectual men, rather than the blind following that happened with the Protestant leaders that would

In document 9, Rees says that the early Americans realized that the crops with more calories were better because they fed more people and made them more energized. This realization led to the Americans accepting and adopting the European crops and cuisines. In addition to the crops, Europeans brought a variety of animals ranging from pigs to horses. These animals were able to reproduce and grow rapidly due to the lack of predators. From the New World, the Europeans were able to get precious metals such as gold and silver, in addition to tobacco (Document 8). The exchange brought 2 hemispheres that had been isolated from each other for millennia. The exchange resulted in the United States becoming the greatest multicultural and multiethnic nation that it is today(Document 6). For the Europeans, coming to the Americas was a way for them to build a better life. According to document 4, Large families with small houses needed land and they

Some of the foods and animals that came from Europe to the Americas were bananas, coffee, cows, sheep, rice, horses, pigs, pears, wheat, turnips, lettuce, peaches, oranges, and lemons. Those are some of the foods and animals that came from Europe to the Americas. Some stuff that came from the Americas to Europe was, corn, cotton, papayas, peanuts, pumpkins, vanilla beans, marigolds, pineapples, and avocados. There are a lot more of food that came from the Americas to Europe.

The Columbian Exchange brought new crops to Europe from the Americas that benefitted the Europeans greatly. The new crops allowed for a higher caloric value and caused the Europeans to adopt American crops. In Document 6 it states “… the people of the Americas realized that crops with higher caloric value could not only feed more people, but also allowed people to work harder because they were more energized” (Document 6). These crops allowed more people to be fed and more labor to be achieved in Europe. In Document 8, it lists the different varieties of crops traded through the Columbian Exchange. One example of such a crop is the potato. Crops like

Foods that originated in the old world are apples, bananas, beans some varieties , beets, broccoli, carrots, cattle beef, cauliflower, celery, cheese, cherries, chickens, chickpeas, cinnamon, coffee, cows, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, ginger, grapes, honey.Some foods that originated in the new world is artichokes, avocados, beans , black walnuts, blueberries, cacao , cashews, cassava, chestnuts, corn ,etc.Columbus also realized that the new food they got is that there is more food to feed more people but also more calcium that gave the hard working men for energy to

The Columbian Exchange introduced many things into the New and Old World that changed their culture completely. Ireland is known for potatoes, but potatoes didn’t come from Ireland they came from the New World. Also, horses are one of the symbols of Native Americans, though horses were one of the domesticated animals brought to the New World. The New World eventually benefited from the European exploration to the New World with the introduction of crops, livestock, and European technology.

Along with the food, animals, and items came disease. In The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas written by Harvard Professor Nathan Nunn and Associate Professor at Yale, Nancy Qian and published by American Economic Association, it reads “The list of infectious diseases that spread from the Old World to the New is long; the major killers include smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria” (Nunn and Qian). The spread of disease caused massive drops in populations throughout the world. In Doctor James Carrick Moore’s book The History of Small Pox written in 1815 states that “several warlike nations of Indians had been almost extinguished by the Small Pox and fifty years ago heaps of bones, like trophies of the disease, were to be seen in the fields, under the tufted oaks” (Moore). Not only the transfer of diseases, but also the exchange of food, ideas, and animals had such a large impact on the world and humankind.

When the Columbian Exchange didn’t happen yet many of the Native Americans had to do all of the labor by themselves without any use of animals. After the Columbian Exchange, Columbus brought over horses, dogs, cattle, goats, and chicken and it provided the Natives with a new source of labor and also with a new source of food. Many of these animals carried diseases and humans were dying. Those diseases that the animals carried with them came to the New World. Cattle were very profitable because you could eat their meat and also use their hides as a blanket. The cattle hides were then shipped back to Europe to be sold as well as the meat. Cattle have a downfall because they were destroying Native American crops by eating them or by just simply stepping on them. Black rats carried bubonic plague and typhus; the black rats came from the Old World to the New World and that plague spread to the colonist. The plague also killed off some of the smaller animals that belong to the Native Americans. Horses also land a great impact in the new world for Europeans; they used horses to scare the Native Americans because the natives didn’t know what horse was and what they do. Horses have lots of power and compared to the other animals the horses are much faster and have a bolder look and that is why the Natives are so frighten of

The similarities of the impact of the health involved new culture, diets, and diseases. The Old World, which includes Europe and Africa, and the New World, which includes the Americas, both learned and grew of new culture during the Columbian Exchange. The learning of new cultures involved the exchange

The four items that the Americans exchanged with the Europeans are beaver hats, deerskin, buffalo skins and meat. The four items that the Europeans exchanged with the Americas are horses, cows, pigs, wheat, barley, sugar cane. The one thing that I didn’t mention is the plants that the Europeans got while they were in the new world. “Maize and beans, subsistence crops throughout much of the Americas, prospered well in the Mediterranean Basin. Tomatoes and chili peppers adapted easily to the