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Europeans During The Columbian Exchange
The Europeans sailed for the America’s to discover, explore, convert and to make money . They brought many things for them to live off of, such as cows, sugarcane, onion, grains,grapes,turnip, and more. When they came back from the Americas they brought back cacao beans, pineapple, squash,turkey, pumpkin, tobacco, potatoes, and more. The Columbian Exchange also helped spread agriculture, more money, and a spread of ideas such as religious ideas. During the explorations, many bad things happened. As the Europeans sailed while taking food with them, they also carried a lot of diseases such as smallpox, whooping cough, malaria, typhus, influenza, measles, and diphtheria. When they got to the Americas all of the natives caught their disease

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