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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.
Old World → New World
Horses, pigs, cattle, sheep, wheat, sugar, smallpox
New world→ Old world
Corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, cacao, tobacco
postive effects
new foods and population growth
Negative effects
diseases like smallpox killed many indigenous people
Tainos:
Indigenous Caribbean people devastated by colonization
Columbus:
Began contact between Old & New Worlds
Slaves:
Africans forced into labor in New World
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spoke out against Indigenous abuse