Before you read the article, you should skim it first. It led to massive population growth and increasing urbanization. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. University Professor, History and Foreign Service, Georgetown University. plants, animals, and diseases Name all the things echanged in the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange impacted almost every civilization in the world bringing fatal diseases that depopulated many cultures. Never having experienced these types of diseases before, the Native Americans were way more susceptible to them. The livestock brought over by Christopher Columbus notably attacked the alpacas and llamas which were extensively used in the Americas. Cassava, originally from Brazil, has much that recommended it to African farmers. Positive effects of the columbian exchange. The Different Positive Along with measles, influenza, chickenpox, bubonic plague, typhus, scarlet fever, pneumonia and malaria, smallpox spelled disaster for Native Americans, who lacked immunity to such diseases. Because of the Columbian Exchange, the potatoes and corn grown in the Americas offered better food supplies to the European continent. Keep in mind that when you read the article, it is a good idea to write down any vocab you see in the article that is unfamiliar to you. The new animals made the Americas more like Eurasia and Africa in a second respect. This resulted in an improvement in the average diet for people, including a lower cost for food. Also note that European diseases were responsible for killing 90% of the natives in the new World. Diseases were transferred from the Old to the New World and vice versa. According to one theory, the origins of syphilis in Europe can be traced to Columbus and his crew, who were believed to have acquired Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis, from natives of Hispaniola and carried it back to Europe, where some of them later joined Charles army. Author of. The domestication of species other than dogs was yet to come. Well, if you are exposed to a disease a lot, (which the Europeans would have been, because they lived in a much more polluted environment than the Native Americans) you become more immune to it.
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