Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

Christopher Columbus's arrival in North America was responsible for the decline in the Native American population with an altered economic system across America. Through the transfer of goods and people, his idea became known as "the Columbian Exchange." This Exchange was a connection that radicalized the world into a contemporary trade network through "the intercontinental transfer of plants, animals, and technology, hence changing the world and the communities it interacted with, resulting in new species and tools and ideas" (Nunn et al., "The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas."). These transfers that were witnessed carried along diseases such as measles that wiped away a significant number of the Native American population

With the tragic disease, smallpox was attributed to the Columbian Trade. The resultant effect that was witnessed saw the decline in the number of Native Americans wiped by the disease enhanced by the Columbian's trade. Raising contentious issues arising from smallpox made writers refer to it as the King's malady ("Moore, James Carrick, Excerpt from The history of smallpox"). In this case, had the issue not been contained from the King since its eruption, it would have soon terminated his life. While discovery and inventions took shape, Columbus discovered the compass, which increased the scope of human knowledge traversing into different geographical settings. The scenes occasioned misery among them calamities as the contagion of Smallpox and Measles extended to various hemispheres. With evil being compromised instead of humanity, this led to the wiping away of many people while the atrocity continued to

This was the moment when Christopher Columbus's voyage shipped to the Americans in th1492 with radicalization taking place. The Exchange of food introduced various staple crops from the Old World, such as potatoes, cassava, and maize. The old world climate was unsuitable for cultivating the "Old World Staples"; hence new World staples grew very well. On the side of diseases, the Europeans transported deadly diseases such as smallpox and measles into Native America in which no immunity had been established for the viruses and bacteria. It is from the Columbian Exchange that the extremely negative impacts, such as Native Americans being decimated by "Old World Diseases" and depopulation taking place, affecting their population (Nunn et al., "The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas.") Moreover, introducing "Old World" crops such as sugarcane and coffee increased the transatlantic slave trade due to the demand for labor. This forced millions of Africans to move to the West hence putting the African continent under European rule for