The Columbian Exchange Summary

The Columbian Exchange was a time period where there was cultural and biological exchanges such as crops, disease, and animals. Ever

As one of the most prominent trade routes between Europe, Africa, and America, the effects of the Columbian Exchange was both beneficial and destructive the the “New World.” After Columbus’s sea voyage in 1492, European colonies stepped on the land of possibilities. However, whereas people witnessed the American exponential economical growth, the intrustion of European colonists brought with severe ecological, demographical, and cultural destruction.

The columbian exchange opened new doors for trade between the New World (America), the Old (Europe) and Africa. The exchange included the transfer of food, slaves, alcohol, raw materials, and processed goods.

When the New World was discovered in 1492, European history would soon become shaped by what is

The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vise versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and also diseases to the New World.

The Columbian Exchange is the period of time after Columbus discovery of the Americas in 1942 where there was an exchange of diseases, trade, crops, and migration between the New World and the Old World. First the Columbian Exchange caused a large majority of deaths by diseases for the Native American. The Europeans exposed the natives to sicknesses they had never been exposed to before and thus they had built no immunity or defense to them. Although several diseases were transferred from the old world to the new world the deadliest includes smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria (Nunn). Smallpox was often misdiagnosed and killed thousands of Indians. It is estimated that in 1492 there were between

The Columbian Exchange was an extensive transportation of farm animals, plants, culture, people, and ideas between North America and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries. What derived during that period was a massive change between both hemispheres which brought good and bad things. After Columbus reached the New World in 1492, the Pilgrims fled their home land to seek for “freedom” to worship as Christians; where in Europe it was forbidden to do so, but they were ready to sacrifice everything they had there to travel to a new territory (America) in new hopes that their children will be able to learn about Christianity

The Americas “had a very significant decline in population, losing somewhere around 30 million people,” from European diseases in 1500 to 1700. These diseases killed up to 90% of Native Americans in the New World. The Spanish purposefully gave the Native Americans blankets and clothes that had been used by someone who had previously died of smallpox. The Spanish also put diseases in the rivers that the Native Americans used to drink. After so many Native Americans died of disease, it was very easy for Europeans to conquer and colonize the land. They had already killed millions of natives and wiped out entire civilizations. Because it was easy to set up colonies in the New World, the English colonies eventually came together to form the United States and a very powerful country as it is today. Cleary, disease was also a big impact of the Columbian Exchange. Most diseases spread from the Old World to the New World. Syphilis, however, a disease that created a painful blistering rash, and traveled back to Europe from the New World by sailors. Disease had a big impact by killing millions of innocent

The controversial scholarly journal of Robert S Wolff explores the history of the first trade encounters between the Portuguese in Africa and Asia, controversy lying in its separation from the Western narrative. Throughout the article, the author is trying to figure out the motives or other considerations playing a role behind the actions of Portuguese and other Europeans, such as choosing violent ways of making a profit in the lands of Africa and Asia, rather than using the existing trade networks, to emerge as the world ruler. In his view, Europeans had claimed themselves to be the “center of the world” way before they have risen to that title. European countries were looking for profitable trade in wealthy lands full of gold, consequently lack of resources and other valuable goods became a barrier to their success in the already existing channels.This is seen in da Gamma’s first encounter with the local ruler of Calicut, where his gifts were considered substandard to that of the poorest merchant, as seen by the local advisor.

Many years ago, there was a world drift that carried the Old and New Worlds apart, which made a split between the North and South. The separation lasted so long it caused the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the Atlantic and vipers on the other. After 1492, human voyagers had their artificial establishment of connections through the Old and New World plants, animals, and bacteria, which was known as the Columbian Exchange. The exchange is the ecological events of the past millennium.The Columbian Exchange had a widespread exchange of animal, plants, culture including slaves, diseases, and ideas between the eastern and western hemispheres. The exchange was the most significant event concerning ecology, agriculture, and culture in history. The Europeans were the first who touched the shores of the Americas. Old World crops such as wheat, barley, rice, and turnips had not traveled west across the Atlantic. The New World crops such as maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc had not traveled east to Europe. Americas did not have horses, cattle, sheep, or goats, or animals of the Old World. The New World had no relations with the animals that were part of the Old World. The New World did not have the pathogens associated with the Old World’s populations of humans and creatures like chickens, cattle and mosquitoes. There were the germs that carried smallpox, measles, chickenpox, influenza and malaria.

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

These diseases were naively introduced to them. The common Old World illness that was contributed majority of the population decline was the small pox. The substantial number of diseases brought to the New World cause a drastic decline in the Native American’s population. However, all blame cannot be put on the Europeans. The New World contained diseases, even though small pox was a big contributor to the death of many

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.

The Pequots in Connecticut River Valley did not want the whites expanding onto their land. The whiles destroyed their towns and left the remaining survivors of the Pequot tribe to be sold as slaves. This represented a power shift from the populist Native Americans to the English and led to the opportunity for more Puritan expansion.

- 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,