How Did The Columbian Exchange Shaped The Atlantic World

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The Columbian Exchange shaped the Atlantic World. The Columbian Exchange was the start of connection and communication between the two hemispheres of the world through trade from both sides of people, crops, cultures, ideas, diseases, and cattle. The Columbian Exchange started when Christopher Columbus and his crew made land in the Americas. This exchange specifically benefitted Europe the most. Europe benefitted the most because of the new crops that were introduced to them such as maize (corn), potatoes, and tobacco to name a few. They also benefitted because they were peopling the new world with immigrants from Europe and slaves from Africa. The Americas were impacted greatly because of the great dying that ensued across the American Indian