The Effect Of The Biological Exchange On The Population Of Europeans And Native Americans

In the biological exchange, both Europeans and Native Americans found new crops, animals, and diseases. When Europeans brought pigs, cows, and horses this changed Native American life, since pigs would eat the planted corn in the fields (America before Columbus, 2009). Europeans brought potatoes, tomatoes, cacao and many other plants back to Europe from America. Europeans brought rice, wheat, barley, and many other plants to America (Tindell and Shi, 2013, p.14). During the biological exchange diseases were transferred and this affected the population of Native Americans anywhere from 50 to 90 percent (America Before Columbus, 2009). The diseases Europeans brought were smallpox, typhus, malaria, the bubonic plague, and many other deadly diseases