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    interconnected through the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange refers to a time period where crops, disease, technology, animals, and ideas were traded between the Old World and New World. The largest effect in the Columbian Exchange was crop exchange, although some believe the largest effect was disease. Crop exchange clearly made the stronger impact in the Columbian Exchange. The first reason crop exchange made such a larger impact during the Columbian Exchange was because of…

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    The Columbian Exchange, which was initiated by Christopher Columbus in 1492 on his quest to reach the West Indies, was not only a historic meeting between the eastern and western civilizations from across the Atlantic, but also an opportunity for the sharing of two vastly different cultures. The initial encounter between Columbus and the natives of the New World provided a defining moment for humanity as diseases, crops, and religions that had not previously been known to either side now became…

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    The Columbian exchange was a vital event that led to the merging of the Old and New worlds. It also dramatically changed the resources available, cultures, and many more aspects of life in all countries involved. The Columbian exchange was the sharing of plants, animals, population, ideas, disease, and many more consequences as a result of Columbus’ arrival and the exploration of the resources in the Americas. The new cultures and ideas developed from the Columbian Exchange included the…

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    is the Columbian Exchange? What was “exchanged?” The Columbian Exchange is an important event that has taken place in fifteenth and sixteenth century. It started when the Europeans came across the Atlantic Ocean. Who we know as Christopher Columbus, was the explorer who “discovered” the Americas. During the voyages, he had taken from Spain he was able find a different culture. He was able to see what he hadn’t yet discovered until 1492. I will be going in depth about the Columbian Exchange. How…

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    Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was the massive exchange of foods, animals, diseases and culture between the Americas and Europe. The Old World was affected in a lot of ways, for example they were able to trade for crops that became staples in Europe. A good example is the white potato, which when it failed caused massive famine in Ireland. The New World however, was affected more by the Columbian Exchange than the Old World. The Americas were affected more due to the massive trade of…

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    The most important item exchange in the columbian exchange were crops ,slaves, and animals .Crops like wheat rice and sugarcane are important because there is a lot of wheat eaten by people here in america.Wheat can grow in Northern American plains, which is where maize can not. Another reason why it is important is because is lead to the vast increase in slavery of in slaves that were brought from the old world to the americas.Sugarcane lead to use of forced labor because the Natives declined…

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    long-term impact the Spanish had in the United States was the encomienda system. Even though the system was replaced with a United States general slavery system, it influenced the development of slavery in the US which would last for many years. The Columbian Exchange impacted the new and old worlds by introducing many valuable crops such as citrus to the new world and vanilla tobacco to the old world. It also brought new technology which improved the combat of the natives in the new world,…

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    The Columbian Exchange was a time period in which trading and exchanges were completed between the Old and New Worlds. The man in which it was centered around is Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer and navigator, who is credited with discovering the New World. Although he was looking for a quicker trade route to Asia, Columbus stumbled upon North America and changed the way people lived all around the globe. Exploration was a crucial piece of European life, so its not surprising that the…

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    Around 1491 there were few disease in the new world.Then it all change when the Columbian Exchange began.It was a time for exploration and exchange form the new world to the old world.Yet it also became an exchange of diseases like smallpox,measles and malaria.Malaria is a diseases that is trasmitted by an infected mosquito.It a deasse that has impact many people and still does . In 1491 the Columbian exchange began bring many products like livestock, grains ,fruits and…

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    The Columbian Exchange was an encounter between the Native Americans and the Europeans that drastically changed both cultures. Both peoples exchanged items such as cattle, plants, and even some cultural aspects. The effects of the Columbian Exchange reverberated through North America as foreign European ideas became more and more familiar. Crops played a large part in the Exchange. The Native Americans supplied the Europeans with tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes. These newly…

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