The cultural and economic impacts of the indigenous people on the Old World and vise versa changed the culture, food, music, religion, and daily life of the Old and New World. One of the impact on the Old World from the New World was in the textile industry. In the New World the indigenous people created a way to create pure red dye for textiles which was very rare in the Old World. Pure red textiles were only owned by rich and powerful people because of its scarcity. In the New World the indigenous people discovered a way to use an insect found on a prickly pear plant in order to create the red dye in bulk. This discovery was considered great and the red dye was considered extremely valuable. Its value, in the Old World, was ranked below gold
