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The Consequences Of The Columbian Exchange

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I don’t think that the benefits of exploration outweighed its consequences. Even though exploring the New World was an excellent idea, there were consequences.The Columbian exchange brought food, animals, and new plants.Native Americans died from diseases and illness.
Slavery was a big thing in America since Christopher Columbus. I believe that the benefits did not outweigh the consequences. This is why.

First of all, The Columbian Exchange was an exchange between America (New World) and Europe (Old World). Document D shows that Europeans brought animals,wheat, sugar,coffee, and rice. The New World gave gold, silver, corn, potatoes,beans,vanilla,chocolate,tobacco, and cotton. The Europeans also went to Africa and brought slaves
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