Squash
Avocado
Peppers
Sweet Potatoes*
Turkey
Pumpkin
Tobacco
Quinine
Cocoa
Pineapple
Cassava*
POTATO*
Peanut
TOMATO* Vanilla
MAIZE*
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A long term benefit of the Columbian Exchange was an improvement in the diet of the people of Europe. With the introduction of potatoes and corn, people in Europe lived longer; fewer women died in child birth, and fewer children died of early childhood diseases. The end result was a marked increase in the European population.
The end result was a decided improvement in the diet of most Europeans as well as a decline in the overall cost of food. Europeans tended to live longer after the exchange, fewer children died in infancy, and there was a resultant explosion in the population.
Guinea Pigs in the center of two seventeenth-century Dutch scenes: in the midst of a barnyard in a drawing by Jan Fyt (British Museum)
tobacco in Nicolas Monardes’ Joyfull Newes out of the New-founde World (1577)
A very simplified view of the Columbian Exchange; for a more comprehensive discussion, go to the source: Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.