Columbian+Exchange

The Columbian Exchange was a process that took place after Columbus came to the Americas. People, plants, animals, and diseases were exchanged between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. __** Old World and New World **__ From the Old World, Europeans brought animals, plants,and even diseases to the new world. People in the Americas had little knowledge of the diseases people had in Afro-Eurasia. Since people in the new world had little immunities, this lead them to catch diseases like smallpox and even the common cold. In the old world many diseases like Malaria, Smallpox, Yellow Fever and Measles existed, though Tuberculosis (known as TB) was located in both. In turn people from the New World gave Europeans syphilis, causing widespread chaos and biological effects. There were many important plants and animals that were brought to the new and old worlds. The Old World brought many domesticated animals to the New World. Beasts of burden were brought to the new world from the old world to help with things like farming. Many plants were also exchanged. =__Consequences of the Columbian Exchange__=
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America:
America sufferend from the single most devastating disease epidemic in human history, up tp 90% of people died. The Columbian exchanged destroyed American societies and civilizations, resulting in a massive change in society. There were also political changes. Before conquest, American societies were self governing, but after the Columbian exchange, Europeans controlled them. This caused a change in economic too. American societies became economically dependent on Europe. Mining expanded greatly to make bullion (gold and silver coins) and agriculture changed. Before the Europeans came, agriculture was subsided. There was the development of plantations to make rum and ranching with the arrival of goats and sheeps. A new kind of people were also created, such as mestizo, mulatto, zambo and lobo. Social classes depended on race, with Eurpean born whites on top and Indians on the bottom. A new culture was made based on a mixture of European, African and Native.

Europe:
Europe's population increased greatly. From 1550-1750, the population doubled. Families were able to have more kids because there was more foods like potatoes and corn. Spain and Portugal made a lot of money. They employed slaves to work in mines and find gold and silver. Their economies were dependent on the silver and gold they recieved from the colonies. Because there was so much money, inflation occured. So Spain and Portugal experienced economic decline.

Asia:
Asia's population grew, especially in China. Chinese agriulture was the most efficient because it was a huge country and they opened up more land for cultivation. This resulted in being incrediby prosperous. China had lots of silver since most of the silver that circulated the world during the 17th century ended up there. China had products the rest of the world wanted like silk and porcelain. Beacuse China had a lot of silver, they experienced serius inflation. The prices of crops declined, causing farmers to lose money and become homeless. Serious economic problems and political chaos occurred because of the Columbian exchange.

Africa:
Contrary to what many people believe, Africa's population increased even with the existance of slavery. Europeans were interested in young men as slaves. Therefore African women were force to move into the slaving states. The practice of having more than one wife became popular. This resulted in more children so the population grew. The Columbian exchange expanded slave trade. Slaving states expanded in Coastal West Africa. Europeans traded guns for slaves and slaving states would use the guns to capture more slaves. Ther was a demographic shift in Africa too.