FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Money
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Plants
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Animals
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Disease
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Detailed explanation-1: -Before Europeans initiated the Columbian Exchange of germs and viruses, the peoples of the Amer-icas suffered no smallpox, no measles, no chickenpox, no influenza, no typhus, no typhoid or parathyroid fever, no diphtheria, no cholera, no bubonic plague, no scarlet fever, no whooping cough, and no malaria.”
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In Europe, the main countries in the trade were England, France, Spain and Portugal. West Africa was involved in the slave trade which went to The Caribbean, Brazil, Peru and South-Eastern US.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian Exchange resulted from Europeans’ exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas.