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The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of plants, animals, people, cultures, ideas, and diseases between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa). You could also look at it as an exchange between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.
The transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
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Christopher gave us sugar , coca cola and popcorn He used African people as slaves He brought diseases He "discovered" America
Disease killed millions of Native AmericansThe Columbian Exchange (the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, etc. between the old and new worlds) had both positive and negative impacts. For the native people in the Americas, the cumulative effect was negative.One example is large groups of native peoples being wiped out by European diseases like smallpox.