Columbian Exchange

The Age of Exploration began in the 1500s and lasted until the 1700s. This period was known as a time when the old world began exploring the new world by sea in search of new goods, land, gold and new trade routes. The information gained during the Age of Exploration greatly allowed geographic knowledge to move forward. European exploration led to global trade and colonization. The old world discovering the new world made the Columbian Exchange: a wide transfer of goods, like food, animals and slaves, and not so good, including communicable diseases and culture. The motivation of trying to discover new land and riches, led the old world to invent many useful things, such as boats, compasses, and cross-staffs. The renaissance already had many inventers make tools, such as guns tanks and the very useful toilet. …show more content…
After Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage the natives of the Americas and the afro Eurasians traded and exchanged many things, some good, and some bad. Explorers returned to Europe with corn, potatoes, and tomatoes, which became very important to Europe. In the process, Europeans introduced rice and peanuts to the new world. There were some very unintentional thing that were introduced during the exchanges, such as pests, like rats, and major diseases that killed many people. Before communication was established between the two worlds, diseases that were deadly to humans, such as smallpox, were unknown to the new world, but after, both worlds had many harmful diseases to worry about. It is not just the old world; the new world introduced yellow fever to the old