The Columbian Exchange was a period of globalized trade between the New World and the Old World. The components of trade included the exchange of ideas, disease, food crops and populations between the New and Old Worlds.1, which was driven by European colonialism in the Americas. In our patterns up close section we are given an argument based on this exchange that explains how Europe was the clear winner in this global exchange.2 We, as an audience, should embrace what is being said in this section because as Europe was clearly the big winner in this exchange. The advantages that led Europe to rule as a result of this exchange came from increased agriculture production, disease and occupancy of the colonies in the Americas. To begin, the
