The Columbian Exchange” is a term that refers to a long, complex historical process. The Columbian Exchange can be described as the global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human pop

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“The Columbian Exchange” is a term that refers to a long, complex historical process. The
Columbian Exchange can be described as the global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals,
human populations, and disease pathogens that took place after the oceanic expeditions of
Christopher Columbus and other Europeans. Since indigenous Americans had no immunity to
Eurasian diseases, they took a staggering toll: in many cases, like colonial Mexico, the
mortality rate was as high as 90 percent within thirty years of invasion.
Why did some people suffer and some people benefit from the Columbian Exchange?
If epidemic disease and other brutal conditions had not caused such high mortality
among indigenous Americans, in what ways might the history of the Americas in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries (1500s and 1600s) have been different?
How did the massive death toll among indigenous Americans relate to the origins of the
Atlantic slave trade in Africans?
Briefly discuss how events and processes that occurred in the Americas played a role in
shaping historical developments in West Africa and East Asia.
Finally, note some ways that the exchange of items as seemingly mundane as new food
crops can help shape historical developments over the long term, in both positive and negative
ways.
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