Positive And Negative Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

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The Columbia exchange refers to the cultural and biological exchange between the Old and New Worlds. The Columbia exchange had positive and negative aspects a well. Even though the exchange had positive aspects the cumulative effect was negative because the entire population of both worlds was wiped out by European diseases like measles, smallpox, bubonic plague etc., the Columbia exchange also had a negative impact in the African population too because the Old World imported African slaves to work on the vast tracts of land they had colonized. Nevertheless, the multicultural and modern societies that exist today in the New World (America Continent) would not exist without the Columbia exchange. Although European methods