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The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of diseases, plants, animals, and precious metals.
From the New World to Europe
Diseases: syphilis
Plants: potatoes, corn, tomatoes, pineapple, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate
Animals: turkeys
Metals: Gold and Silver
From Europe to the New World
Diseases: small pox, measles, Bubonic Plague, influenza, typhus
Plants: wheat, sugar, rice, coffee
Animals: horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens
From the Old World to the New: The deadly smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, gonorrhea, chlamydia, common cold, measles, influenza, chickenpox, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, slaves from Africa, barley, wheat, rye, sugar cane, coffee, dandelions and ragweed.
From the New World to the Old: Tobacco, syphilis, corn, squash, beans, most importantly potatoes, turkeys, llamas, peanuts, pumpkins and peppers.
Raw materials like precious metals (gold and silver), tobacco, sugar and cotton went from the Americas to Europe. Manufactured goods like cloth and metal items went to Africa and the Americas. Finally, slaves went from Africa to the Americas to work. This trade created great profits for Europe.
Some of the products exchanged between Europe and the Americas as a result of the columbian exchange were plants and animals they had never seen before.
Answers may vary but to include 3 of the following: people, language, plants, animals, technology,disease,goods.
The Americas’ farmers’ trades to other continents included staples such as corn (maize), tobacco, potatoes, cassava, and sweet potatoes, together with secondary food crops such as tomatoes, peanuts, pumpkins, squashes, pineapples, and chili peppers.
The Columbian Exchange is a term given to the widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture and human populations, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
because they had the columbian exchange; columbian exchange is a global exchange of goods and ideas
the Columbian exchange
the introduction of smallpox
Fur and other goods.