USA HISTORY

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: -The Columbian Exchange was the transatlantic trade of crops, technology, and culture between the Americas and Europe, Africa, and Asia. The ships La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María made Columbus’ first voyage across the Atlantic.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian Exchange brought horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and a collection of other useful species to the Americas. Before Columbus, Native American societies in the high Andes had domesticated llamas and alpacas, but no other animals weighing more than 45 kg (100 lbs).