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This video helps us understand a lot about the driving question and about the Columbian-American exchange. Both the Natives and Europeans needed stuff from each other and that is when the Columbian-American exchange started and that is also how it got its name. See when these two worlds collided both the new world and the old world change in various ways such as genetics, religion, food, etc.. We also found out that the Europeans were not the ones who worshipped the virgin mary first, it was the Natives and then when the two worlds collided the Europeans also started to worship her and adopted

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