The Columbian Exchange was a major historical event because it had both a positive and negative impact on the world. Major positive consequences that resulted from the Columbian Exchange was the rise of farming, more land, more boats, and belongings from the king and queen. In the text it says, “The Columbian Exchange connected almost all of the world through new networks of trade. The impact was the rise of plantation farming and cash crops changed the economy and social systems of the Americans. This means that the impact was the rise of farming. And my teacher Mr. Bohannon told me that Christopher Columbus went to the king and queen with barely anything that was brought back and said that he needed more doats and men, And in a text that I read it said that the Americans got more land from the Europeans. …show more content…
In an article it says, “One of the major aspects of the Columbian Exchange was the spread of diseases around the world between the Old World and the New World. When Christopher Columbus made his voyage to the New World in 1492, unbeknownst to him, he and his crew brought a series of diseases that would be devastating to the indigenous peoples of the New World. and which the indigenous peoples did not have immunity to and thus resulted in a large number of deaths among the indigenous peoples in the Americas. and Regardless, the spread of European diseases had a dramatic effect on the societies and cultures of indigenous