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Reasons For The Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange is referred to as a time of natural and social trades between the New and Old Worlds. Trades of plants, illness and disease, animals and new technology changed European and Native American lifestyles. Advancements in technology, production of agriculture and warfare, expanded death rates and education are a few reasons of the impact of the Columbian Exchange on both Europeans and the Americas.
Americans were, and wherever they originated from, referred to as Paleo-Indians. Asians moved over a land bridge known as Beringia in the middle of Russia and Alaska at some point toward the end of the last Ice Age. During Christopher Columbus famous discovery in 1492, the trade kept going during the time of the new discovery
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