FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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East to West
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West to East
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North to South
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South to North
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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: -Goods, crops, mineral wealth, words, and medicines flowed east into Europe while livestock, humans, plants, ideas, and much more travelled west into the Americas. This flow and counterflow is known as the Columbian Exchange.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Columbian Exchange brought horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and a collection of other useful species to the Americas.
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.