Historian Alfred Cosby coined the phrase “Columbian Exchange” to depict the exchange of plants, animals and disease between the Old World and New World following Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World in 1492. The Columbian Exchange was a revolutionary time period for both the Old World and the New World as it transformed each area in both positive and negative ways. Primarily, the main impacts of the exchange were transformations of the people, animals, plants, food, minerals and commerce in the two areas. Specifically, the Old Word introduced the New World to livestock such as cows, pigs and horses, and agricultural plants like wheat, rice and sugar cane. In return, the New World presented the Old World with potatoes, corn, beans
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One undesirable effect was the diseases that the people from the Old World brought with them when migrating to the New World. The native people of the New World had no immunity to diseases like smallpox, influenza and malaria and as a result it is estimated that the Native population was reduced 80-95% within 100-150 years after 1492. Not only were diseases brought from the Old World to the New World, but it is also hypothesized that syphilis was introduced to the Old World as a result of the Columbian Exchange. Additionally, another negative side effect was the expansion of the slave trade industry. The increased amount of Africans being captured and sold as slaves turned Africa into a hostile environment. Many Africans turned against each other and captured each other and sold them as slaves. The Europeans could not capture enough Africans on their own to be profitable so rulers of African tribes used African prisoners as trading pieces. The rise of this industry resulted in the largest forced migration in modern history as it is estimated that over 12.5 Africans were transported to the …show more content…
“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” The basis behind the Holocaust was that the Germans believed the Jews were an “inferior” race and their existence was a threat to the German racial community. The Germans also targeted homosexuals, disabled people, politically and ideological-dissenting people like Socialists and Communists, and other individuals of Slavic descent. Accompanying these death camps, Nazi Germany also set up concentration camps and ghettos to group all these individuals together. Often, they worked these people to death doing meaningless tasks until they either died or were sent to death camps. The biggest atrocity to consider about the Holocaust is that in 1933 the European Jewish population stood at over nine million. By 1945, the German’s “Final Solution” killed nearly two out of every three European Jews. It is impossible to value a lost human life. The dreams, ambitions and accomplishments that these individuals could have made will never be discovered due to the sick and demented beliefs of a culture. Each one of the roughly six million Jews who lost his or her life had goals and ambitions that he or she were never be able to pursue because someone took that opportunity away from them. It is appalling to think about how Nazi Germany dehumanized
One undesirable effect was the diseases that the people from the Old World brought with them when migrating to the New World. The native people of the New World had no immunity to diseases like smallpox, influenza and malaria and as a result it is estimated that the Native population was reduced 80-95% within 100-150 years after 1492. Not only were diseases brought from the Old World to the New World, but it is also hypothesized that syphilis was introduced to the Old World as a result of the Columbian Exchange. Additionally, another negative side effect was the expansion of the slave trade industry. The increased amount of Africans being captured and sold as slaves turned Africa into a hostile environment. Many Africans turned against each other and captured each other and sold them as slaves. The Europeans could not capture enough Africans on their own to be profitable so rulers of African tribes used African prisoners as trading pieces. The rise of this industry resulted in the largest forced migration in modern history as it is estimated that over 12.5 Africans were transported to the …show more content…
“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” The basis behind the Holocaust was that the Germans believed the Jews were an “inferior” race and their existence was a threat to the German racial community. The Germans also targeted homosexuals, disabled people, politically and ideological-dissenting people like Socialists and Communists, and other individuals of Slavic descent. Accompanying these death camps, Nazi Germany also set up concentration camps and ghettos to group all these individuals together. Often, they worked these people to death doing meaningless tasks until they either died or were sent to death camps. The biggest atrocity to consider about the Holocaust is that in 1933 the European Jewish population stood at over nine million. By 1945, the German’s “Final Solution” killed nearly two out of every three European Jews. It is impossible to value a lost human life. The dreams, ambitions and accomplishments that these individuals could have made will never be discovered due to the sick and demented beliefs of a culture. Each one of the roughly six million Jews who lost his or her life had goals and ambitions that he or she were never be able to pursue because someone took that opportunity away from them. It is appalling to think about how Nazi Germany dehumanized