cancer, the common cold, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and meningitis
Same ones as today BUT even more toxic as new chemicals are illegally dumped
One troubling element of the Columbian Exchange was the transfer of diseases between the New World and the Old World. This led to devastating impacts on indigenous populations in the Americas who had no immunity to these new diseases introduced by European settlers.
Diseases
cancer <><><> Likely candidates are obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Escaping religious persecution
Escaping religious persecution
They brought in diseases
significant.
Like everyone else in the world.
Diseases and wars.
From Explorers
To work. Due to the Great Dying there was a very small indigenous population, especially in the Caribbean, which is where most New World plantations were located. Most common plantations in the New World were sugar plantations.