FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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A movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
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An exchange of food and goods only from the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
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An exchange of people, animals, and religions only from the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
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none of the above.
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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 Columbian Exchange is the term given to the transfer of plants, animals, disease, and technology between the Old World from which Columbus came and the New World which he found. Some exchanges were purposeful-the explorers intentionally brought animals and food-but others were accidental.
Detailed explanation-3: -From the Eastern Hemisphere, explorers brought illnesses such as smallpox and malaria. Native Americans who were living in the Western Hemisphere had never been exposed to these diseases, and thus their bodies had built up no immunities to them. Consequently, millions of native peoples perished.
Detailed explanation-4: -Other effects of the Columbian Exchange were more positive. The Spanish brought many plants and animals to the Americas. European livestock-cattle, pigs, and horses-all thrived in the Americas. Crops from the Eastern Hemisphere, such as grapes, onions, and wheat, also thrived in the Western Hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Columbian Exchange connected almost all of the world through new networks of trade and exchange. The inter-continental transfer of plants, animals, knowledge, and technology changed the world, as communities interacted with completely new species, tools, and ideas.