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What is the Columbian Exchange and how did it impact the Americas?
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What are two examples of the impact the americas had on europe during the columbian exchange?
Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no potatoes in Ireland, no tomatoes in Italy, and no chocolate in Switzerland.
What was greatest impact of the Columbian Exchange was?
The transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Complex interactions between peoples and environments started by European colonists in the Americas?
columbian exchange
What was one bad effect of the Columbian exchange for the peoples of the Americas?
the introduction of smallpox
Which two parts of the world was the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of plants, animals, people, cultures, ideas, and diseases between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa). You could also look at it as an exchange between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.
What are two examples of the impact the americas had on europe during the columbian exchange?
Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no potatoes in Ireland, no tomatoes in Italy, and no chocolate in Switzerland.
What are two examples of impact the Americas had on Europe during the Columbian exchange?
Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no potatoes in Ireland, no tomatoes in Italy, and no chocolate in Switzerland.
What was greatest impact of the Columbian Exchange was?
The transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Which animal introduced to the Americas during the Columbian exchange had the biggest impact on native Americans?
the horse
What was the greatest impact of the Columbian Exchange?
The transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What voyages of christopher Columbus led to contact and an exchange between Europe Asia Africa and the Americas called?
the columbian exchange
What was the effect of the Columbian Exchange on the people of the Americas?
the introduction of smallpox
Why do they call columbian exchange the columbian exchange?
The Columbian Exchange is named such because it all started when Columbus mistakenly landed in the Caribbean in 1492 (also the year the Columbian exchange is noted for starting). It is also referred to as triangular trade (sugar/agriculture from Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and slaves from Africa to the Americas).
How did columbian exchange affect the Americas and Europe?
One result of this exchange was the transfer of germs and viruses that brought diseases from europe to asia
What were the three major areas that were impacted by the columbian exchange?
Europe, Africa , the Americas
What were three major areas that were impacted by the Columbian Exchange?
The three major areas impacted by the Columbian Exchange were agriculture (introduction of new crops and livestock), demographics (population changes due to disease and migration), and culture (exchange of ideas, religions, and technologies between the Old World and the New World).
Who do you think benefited more from the columbian exchange europeans or people in the Americas?
Europeans
