Columbian Exchange Thesis

The Columbian Exchange

Let’s talk about an exchange, to be more specific the Columbian Exchange. Now what exactly was the Columbian Exchange? You may have heard it before during class and never paid much attention to it because same. Nonetheless it is good you are here reading this because you can finally get knowledgeable and be able to finally understand the important significance the Columbian Exchange brought to the New World. Now here I am eagerly waiting to tell you all about it. The Columbian Exchange is the massive interchange of people, animals, plants and diseases that took place between the Eastern and western Hemisphere after Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. It was the movement of plants, animals and diseases across

This would later become a very important part of the New World's future and way of life. The Columbian Exchange is named after the explorer Christopher Columbus, who was supposedly the “first person” in the New World. He was an Italian sailing for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Though he was the “idea” behind it he wasn't the only one who wanted to participate in the exchange. With that many new things came into the New World and many things came out of the New World. Hence commencing the start of the Columbian Exchange. New foods, new costumes were brought and became very important to the new world and how it is today. Christopher Columbus had made a second voyage to the new world bringing 17 ships to the Caribbean , there he introduced pigs, horses, cows, and chickens to an outward small island and later spread all the way to what is now known as America. This would later help the native americans who would learn to ride horses and help them hunt buffalo and other things more efficiently. Also on that ship he had brought 1,000 men to explore further on the island of Hispaniola to make an earlier settlement. Another interesting thing is the Europeans had brought their

And the new world also benefited Europe, Asia, and Africa. But the changes in the new world were far more drastic. One example was when several new animals came to the new world. They impacted social and political life, the horse had a large impact on the environment. Also the European colonizers of the new world brought many new diseases to the Native Americans who were already here, this caused many tragic deaths of Native American people. Even though the exchange of the old world germs had a very deep impact on the new world, the transfer of livestock and of new crops that were brought into the new world since today we still have many growing crops. Like I said before, the colonizers were able to finally get nutritious food that was already available in the new world. Plus with the crops they were brought from the old world and being mixed in with the new world crops became very important to the new world country now. Fun fact or rather interesting fact the Old World never had seen a tomato before. They were also the reason deforestation and water pollution began in the New World as the population grew and they became more wealthy the need for more crops began the aggressive planting of these crops. But now let's go more into the diseases the colonizers brought to the native people. There were many diseases that had come into the new world. Like one had to do with the pigs Columbus brought aboard his ship