Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

The Native Americans and Africans were forced to become slaves or do labor. Because of the mass deaths, there were less people to grow crops, and people died of starvation. Overall, the Columbian Exchange was a negative event for the New World. Diseases like smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, and whooping cough were spread to the Americas

The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods animals and plants from one country to another. The Columbian Exchange had many impacts. Some of them can still be seen today. One example is introduction of new species. Another is the slave trade that happened.

Many years ago a continental drift caused a split between North and South Africa from Eurasia and Africa. The Columbian Exchange was named by Alfred W. Crosby in 1972. It refers to a period of time in which cultural and biological exchange between the New and Old Worlds occurred. By far the most devastating impact of the Columbian Exchange followed the introduction of new diseases into the Americas. Many inhabitants brought diseases such as smallpox and measles.

All of the trading caused an extremely negative impact on the Americas. All of the new diseases that were introduced cause major problems for the natives there. The native Americans welcomed the invaders with open arms because they were unaware of the diseases they carried. Due to their tolerance for the diseases they brought, the Europeans did not give much thought to or concern about the risks they posed to the locals. Nearly over 90% of Native Americans perished due to the smallpox, influenza, and other virus

Spaniards unknowingly brought bacteria and viruses from the Old World that caused destructive diseases including measles, smallpox, and others. These epidemics decimated the vast majority of Native Americans in the New World. The result was a huge decline in the number of Native Americans, which effectively turned the once-dominant Native Americans into a minority on their own land to the rising number of European and African descendants. Native Americans were not the only ones who suffered. Many of Columbus’s men contracted syphilis after having sexual interactions with New World women.

These livestock brought a change in the diet of the people in the New World. Another impact that occurred in the Columbian Exchange was the upbringing of diseases. Newson (2007) said, “The transfer of diseases between the Old World and the Americas had a disproportionate impact on Native Americans.” Many diseases that were involved between the Columbian Exchange were respiratory diseases and

However, trade and commerce had a negative effect on both sides as well, namely disease. Disease killed a lot of Native Americans as well as gave syphilis to the Old World. The Old World exchanged a vast amount of diseases, for example, smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, influenza, and chick pox. In the New World, the diseases that were exchanged with the Old World were syphilis, polio, hepatitis, and encephalitis (“The Columbian Exchange Introduction”). Due to the fact that both Old and New Worlds had all those illnesses that were crossing the ocean, the Native American population was diminished.

HIS 101-411 J-Term 2015 January 21, 2015 Dr. Víctor M. Macías-González Part One 1. Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was a period of biological and cultural interactions between the New and Old Worlds. In that time, there were exchanges of plants, animals, technology and disease between Europeans and Native Americans.

The Atlantic Crossings of 1912 was an event in history that marked a before and after in modern civilizations, having lasting impacts on both Native American and European societies. This series of voyages led by Christopher Columbus had an impact on the discovery of new lands, proceeding to a process of exchanges in multiple areas from food, supplies, and animals to contagious and deadly diseases. This historic meeting and relationship between these two new worlds, better known as "The Columbian Exchange" marked a new era of exchange not only of goods but also of knowledge, bodybuilding, and identity. The Columbian Exchange was the main factor that thousands of elements that evolved in the Americas and Europe differently had the opportunity to expand and open the ability to adapt for their use and benefits to these two different societies.

The negative aspect to the columbian exchange was the diseases. In the 1500’s contagious diseases brung harsh demographic losses to the population of the americas and other parts of the western hemisphere. The worst disease was probably smallpox, since it was easily transmissible, it spread very quickly. Other diseases that spread through the Columbian Exchange were the measles, flu, whooping cough and diphtheria.

Common Old World diseases included: smallpox, Measles, Malaria, Yellow fever, Influenza, Chickenpox. This is the most important impact because the introduction of these diseases is what killed off huge percentages of the Native American population. These dramatic population changes weakened native peoples’ capacity for resistance and facilitated the transfer of plants, animals, and related technology. The New World disease “Syphilis” reached epidemic proportions throughout Europe, Africa, Russia and other nations. The transmission of diseases during the Columbian Exchange had a profound effect on the world then and continues to affect our world today.

During the late 1400s and the early 1500s, European expeditioners began to explore the New World. Native Americans, who were living in America originally, were much different than the Europeans arriving at the New World; they had a different culture, diet, and religion. Eventually, both the Native Americans and the European colonists exchanged different aspects of their life. For example, Native Americans gave the Europeans corn, and the Europeans in return gave them modern weapons, such as various types of guns. This type of trade was called “the Columbian Exchange.”

During the early 1400’s European exploration initiated changes in technology, farming, disease and other cultural things ultimately impacting the Native Americans and Europeans. Throughout Columbus’ voyages, he initiated the global exchange that changed the world. The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New World began soon after Columbus returned to Spain from the Americas. These changes had multiple effects, that were both positive and negative. Although the Columbian Exchange had numerous benefits and drawbacks but the drawbacks outweighs the benefits.

The Columbian Exchange between the new world and the old world significantly change people’s lives. After 1492, Europeans brought in horses to America which changes the nomadic Native American groups’ living from riding on buffalos to horses. This interchange also change the diet of the rest of the world with foods such as corns (maize), potatoes which are major diet for European nowadays. 
Besides all the animals from old world to the new world, Spanish also brought in the diseases that Native Americans were not immune of, such as smallpox which led to a large amount of Native Americans’ deaths.

The Columbian Exchange, also known as The Great Exchange, is one of the most significant events in the history of world. The term is used to describe the widespread exchange of foods, animals, human populations (including slaves),plants, diseases, and ideas from the New world and the old. this occurred after 1492. Many goods were exchanged between and it started a revolution in the Americas, Africa and in Europe. The exchange got its name when Christopher Columbus voyage started an era of a tremendous amount of exchange between the New and Old World that resulted in this revolution.