columbian exchange
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian exchange created an enormous interchange of various political ideas, cultures, foods, diseases, animals, and people between the old world and the new world, this give and take relationship caused many changes some positive and some negative between the two areas and help redistribute resources between the two hemispheres.
There were many positive things that happened as a result of the Columbian exchange. Potatoes and corn became major food sources for Europeans allowing populations to increase and allowed more settlers an explorers to arrive. The introduction of pigs, cows, and horses gave new food sources and new animals for the Native Americans to use. Also many Native Americans taught the Europeans new farming, fishing, and hunting techniques as well as new plants to grow like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, and pumpkins just to name a few. Catholicism was also introduced to the Natives, and many tried to convert them to make one solid religion.
Though there were many positives between the exchanges there was also many negatives which mainly killed many Native Americans like disease, so Columbus’ voyages may have had greater consequences biologically than culturally. The diseases the Europeans brought with them killed up to ninety percent of the Native Americans in the new world. The Native Americans had never been exposed to these diseases so their bodies could not fight them. However the Europeans had lived with these diseases for thousands of year and were not as likely to die from them. So the European conquest of the Native Americans was made easy by the effect disease had on the Natives as a result the conquistadors who were sent by Spain conquered most of the natives in mezzo America like the Incas and the Aztecs fairly quickly.
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The Columbian exchange created an enormous interchange of various political ideas, cultures, foods, diseases, animals, and people between the old world and the new world, this give and take relationship caused many changes some positive and some negative between the two areas and help redistribute resources between the two hemispheres.
There were many positive things that happened as a result of the Columbian exchange. Potatoes and corn became major food sources for Europeans allowing populations to increase and allowed more settlers an explorers to arrive. The introduction of pigs, cows, and horses gave new food sources and new animals for the Native Americans to use. Also many Native Americans taught the Europeans new farming, fishing, and hunting techniques as well as new plants to grow like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, and pumpkins just to name a few. Catholicism was also introduced to the Natives, and many tried to convert them to make one solid religion.
Though there were many positives between the exchanges there was also many negatives which mainly killed many Native Americans like disease, so Columbus’ voyages may have had greater consequences biologically than culturally. The diseases the Europeans brought with them killed up to ninety percent of the Native Americans in the new world. The Native Americans had never been exposed to these diseases so their bodies could not fight them. However the Europeans had lived with these diseases for thousands of year and were not as likely to die from them. So the European conquest of the Native Americans was made easy by the effect disease had on the Natives as a result the conquistadors who were sent by Spain conquered most of the natives in mezzo America like the Incas and the Aztecs fairly quickly.
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