ECONOMICS
TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE
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horses and major diseases
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squash, pumpkins, and turkeys
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cocoa and horses
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cocoa and llamas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Christopher Columbus introduced horses, sugar plants, and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic is known as the Columbian Exchange.
Detailed explanation-2: -The list of infectious diseases that spread from the Old World to the New is long; the major killers include smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria (Denevan, 1976, p. 5).
Detailed explanation-3: -The main ones, aside from llamas and alpacas, were dogs, turkeys, and guinea pigs. The introduction of horses made hunting buffalo much easier for the Plains Indians.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian Exchange transported plants, animals, diseases, technologies, and people one continent to another. Crops like tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cacao, peanuts, and pumpkins went from the Americas to rest of the world.