The Columbian Exchange can be seen as the trigger that helped to create the world one knows today. However, the path and gruesome outcomes that followed the founding of the Americas destroyed the Native American’s way of life. Christopher Columbus and his unintentional “mistake,” caused the world to never be the same due to the exchange of crops, food, goods, and diseases.
The Columbian Biological Exchange marked the beginning of how the world we know today changed forever. The exchange brought a variety of foreign crops and goods that were not originally found in the Americas. Most crops found in the Old World, such as wheat, rice, and barley, were able to be successfully grown in the New World. Sweet potatoes, maize, tobacco, and cacao were
The Columbian Biological Exchange marked the beginning of how the world we know today changed forever. The exchange brought a variety of foreign crops and goods that were not originally found in the Americas. Most crops found in the Old World, such as wheat, rice, and barley, were able to be successfully grown in the New World. Sweet potatoes, maize, tobacco, and cacao were