What impact did the Columbian Exchange have in Europe during the 1500s and the 1600s?

Answer 1

We usually describe this in purely economic terms, but it is also biological. Researchers increasingly think that the most important cargo on these early transoceanic voyages was not silk and tons of silver but plants and animals, many of them accidental stowaways.

But those homebound ships contained something else of equal importance: the Amazonian plant known today as tobacco.

Before Columbus, the parasites that cause malaria were rampant in Eurasia and Africa but unknown in the Americas. Transported in the bodies of sailors, malaria may have crossed the ocean as early as Columbus's second voyage. Yellow fever, malaria's frequent companion, soon followed.

The diseases of the Columbian Exchange made the enslaved worker "preferable at anything up to three times the price of the European servant."

Hunger was then a familiar presence in Europe. France had 40 nationwide food calamities between 1500 and 1800, more than one every decade, according to the French historian Braudel. England had still more. The continent simply could not sustain itself.

The potato from the New world allowed most of Europe—a 2,000-mile band between Ireland and the Ukraine—to feed itself.

But worse for the New World was the loss of 90 percent of the native population due to diseases that they never had seen before.
There had been about 80 million and only around 720,000 were left.
From the Old World to the New: The deadly smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, gonorrhea, chlamydia, common cold, measles, influenza, chickenpox, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens,
slaves from Africa, barley, wheat, rye, sugar cane, coffee, dandelions and ragweed.

From the New World to the Old: Tobacco, syphilis, corn, squash, beans, most importantly potatoes, turkeys, llamas, peanuts, pumpkins and peppers.

Answer 2

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