Columbian Exchange

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Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia) and the New World (Americas) after 1492.

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Old World → New World

Horses, pigs, cattle, sheep, wheat, sugar, smallpox

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New world→ Old world

 Corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, cacao, tobacco

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postive effects

new foods and population growth

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Negative effects

diseases like smallpox killed many indigenous people

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Tainos:

Indigenous Caribbean people devastated by colonization

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Columbus:

Began contact between Old & New Worlds

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Slaves:

Africans forced into labor in New World

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

Spoke out against Indigenous abuse