Native Americans And The Columbian Exchange

The discovery of North America brought many benefits for the Europeans but very little benefits for the native people of North America. The Columbian Exchange which involved the exchanging of diseases, animals and plants ended up being very helpful for the Europeans that came over to the new world but was not as helpful for the native people. The native people’s population suffered majorly from the introduction of new diseases from the Old World that the Europeans brought over with them.

Of course unintentionally the Europeans bought over diseases to North America that the native people had not been exposed to which caused the deaths of many native people. The Europeans weren’t not the only ones that were guilty of spreading diseases to