Columbian Exchange

time when the Aztecs and Incas were becoming major regional powers, Europe began their maritime voyages, in search of new trade routes and a way to travel to India safer and faster. Because of this aspiration, The Columbian Exchange, which refers to a period in time of cultural exchanges between the New and…

Unintended Consequences of the Columbian Exchange was the diseases that the Europeans brought over to the new world. Such ass smallpox and measles. The Native American people have never been exposed to any such disease. The native American had no immunity whatsoever and absolutely no medicine to treat for smallpox or measles. Illnesses that were mostly common to the people and sometimes treatable in Europe totally ravaged the population. Smallpox was the worst by far, the disease spread like…

In the reading, it mentions the Old and New World. This is seen on page 216, where it states “… you can bring the Old World’s knowledge and technology to the new…”. This reminded me of The Columbian Exchange, a term referring to the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture and disease between the New World and the Old World. Latin America is of the New World because it is an “America” and not part of Europe or Africa. Another term that came to me in this reading was Infrastructure.…

The Columbian Exchange was a work written by Dr. Alfred Crosby in 1972. He wrote it after studying the Western Hemisphere a century after Christopher Columbus came to the Caribbean. In the work Crosby pointed out that there was four changes between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Some of the exchanges where good which included the exchange plants and animals. There was also exchanges that were harmful to both the Europeans and the Native Americans these would have the exchange of…

Silver’s A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, colonists, and slaves in South Atlantic forests. The author quickly acknowledges his appreciation for two earlier works in environmental history that inspired this book, Alfred W. Crosby Jr.’s The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, and William Cronon’s Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. A New Face on the Countryside is those two books combined with a singular focus on the South…

Let’s go back to the 1400s. As Christopher Columbus made his way to the new world, now known as North & South America, the Columbian Exchange affected the Native Americans severely; with the exchange of foods, goods, and livestock, it also brought European diseases in America (The Americans 28-29). As a result, the decreasing Native American population influenced the Europeans to replace the Natives for African…

The Columbian Exchange took place from 1500-1700 CE and was said to be one of the most important time periods in history. During this period, the world took big steps into defying the society that we are today. Slavery was one of the main influences on trade during that time, which led to the exchanging of foreign goods, increasing in women's rights, and the global flow of silver impacted currency all around the world. The increase of trade, cultural advancements, and the rise and fall of…

The Columbian Exchange In the 1960’s historian Alfred Crosby wrote a book about history from the ecological perspective called the Columbian Exchange. (Crosby 11) The term Columbian Exchange has since been commonly used to refer to the series of trades between the Old World (the world as people knew it before Columbus’s voyages), and the New World (the new continents discovered after Columbus’s voyages). Since then, the book has become known as a foundational text for the field of environmental…

Culinary exchange throughout history suggests that globalization is not a new phenomenon as it has been in existence since early centuries. Over the last couple of decades, great controversy has existed over the issue of globalization (Steger). Different scholars conform to different arguments pertaining to the genesis and magnitude of globalization. Some scholars claim that globalization is as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union and hence end of the cold war. They further argue that the…

in the Americas is extremely significant when talking about Latin America. An important dynamic that helped with the colonization process in the Americas was the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange is a widespread transfer of animals, plants, technology, disease, etc. between the Americans and Europeans. The Columbian Exchange was the first bridge between the old world and the new world’s way of life. (Murphy Lecture) This circulated a variety of new crops and livestock, which…