How Did The Columbian Exchange Affect The World

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The Columbian Exchange affected the world in many different ways. Was it for better or for worse is not clear, both can be argued readily. The Exchange consisted of multiple key factors. The Exchange symbolizes the sharing of plants, foods, animals, diseases, and technology between the new and old worlds. The new world being the Americas, and the old world consisting of Afroeurasia. The exchange helped and hurt the different hemispheres The exchange let the world's trade valuable food that would help people in droughts obtain a healthy amount of calories, an example of this being the potato. However the Exchange hurt the worlds as well, the biggest way it hurt was to the new world, for the old world brought diseases that the new world was