The Effects of the Colombian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the transferring of animals, plants, and communicable diseases between the new world and the old world It had carried many effects that affected religion and agriculture.
Most of the popular foods in the US can from the Columbian exchange. Examples of these crops are sugar cane, potatoes, and maize. The passage from the Old Word to the New World in the Columbian Exchange was made by animals as well as humans. Both the non-domesticated and the domesticated animals made an impact on the New World. For example, some of these impacts were the transformation of the grasslands and revolutionizing of labor. Overgrazing by enormous herds of sheep was the reasons for the transformation of the grasslands and the availability of horse, donkey, and the ox was responsible for the new power force for the land. Animals were also vectors for diseases that swept through these communities. Many humans died, the ones who survived had supercharged immune systems that were made stronger and stronger as communities intermingled and new waves of disease passed through.
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However, not all of the aspects of the Columbian Exchange were positive. It is also important to realize that the Columbian Exchange can also be credited for the transmission of diseases which had adverse effects on both the Old and New World alike. Having no prior exposure to these ailments, the Indians were extremely susceptible to diseases. The scale of death in the Americas was overwhelming, 9 out of 10 people died in the hardest hit areas, and it was not uncommon to see 50% mortality in other