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The Columbian Exchange Of Goods And Ideas Between Old And New World

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The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and New World. It was caused by Christopher Columbus sailing to the New World and introducing new goods and ideas to the Native Americans, beginning an exchange. The long term effect or significance of the Columbian Exchange was that both the Old and New World were introduced to new goods and ideas that are now standard and hard to think of without. For example, The Old World introduced grapes to the New World, and the New World introduced peanuts to the Old World, and that's where we get peanut butter and jelly from. Another example is that the Old World introduced sugar to the New World, and the New World introduced cacao beans to the Old World, and that's
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