Negative Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

When it comes to the Columbian exchange, it’s a known fact that no other trading system had ever been on its level. The columbian exchange involved the global diffusion of food crops, plants, animals, humans, and diseases. The reason that the Columbian exchange was involved in the exchange of diseases was because unlike other trade systems, the Columbian Exchange had lands that were greatly different from each other with unfamiliar flora, fauna, and diseases. For more than a thousand years the different hemispheres had lived distinct lives. When making these two hemispheres link and combine, it set off a set of explorations and changed the world's human geography and natural environment forever. The negative aspect to the columbian exchange was the diseases. In the 1500’s contagious diseases brung harsh demographic losses to the population of the americas and other parts of the western hemisphere. The worst disease was probably smallpox, since it was easily transmissible, it spread very quickly. Other diseases that spread through the Columbian Exchange were the measles, flu, whooping cough and diphtheria. All these diseases were so epidemic because at this period in history the hemispheres were just now connecting and before this the western hemisphere had never seen any of these diseases, while the

As a matter of fact, with the Columbian Exchange not only just one certain population grew but it was the world as a whole, which was because of better nutrition. Food crops that came from the eastern hemisphere was wheat, rice, sugar, apples, peaches, cherries and other citrus fruits. Some animals included horses, pigs, goats and chicken. Out of the western hemisphere came maize, tomatoes, peppers, beans, tomatoes, peanuts, avocados, and papayas just to name a few. The Americas also provided the western hemisphere with some new medicinal plants they hadn’t seen