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People say that the Columbian Exchange occurred but it really didn't benefit the people of the New World very much.
europeans took advantage of native american societies weakend by disease
The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of goods between the Old World(Europe) and New World(the Americas). From Europe to the America's: Banana's, chickens, lemons, oranges, rice, coffee, lettuce, etc. From the America's to Europe: Corn, cotton, bell peppers, pumpkins, tobacco, sweet potatoes, sunflowers, turkeys, etc.
Colombian Exchange is when they have a trade and one side gets good food and the other side gets smallpox. Smallpox is a disease but they did not know that they were getting a disease and neither did the people that were bringing it.
Well there is the slasve trade and christopher columbus finding the Americas which resulted in the columbian exchange and the inclussion of the americas in global trade aside from the europeans who fought for the supremacy of the americas and the spread of disease.
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The Columbian exchange introduced disease, famine and non native species of animals to the Atlantic world. The disease caused many epidemics among the Natives and the species of new animals wreaked havoc on plants. The Columbian exchange also changed the terrain
Disease killed many Native Americans.
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