FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
The Columbian Exchange made the world slightly richer. There were more goods being traded and more money was changing hands
|
|
|
More crops were spread over larger areas of the globe
|
|
|
Fewer and fewer people were exposed to the same diseases and developed new resistance to them
|
|
|
It made the world more unequal. Some populations were better able to take advantage of the new connections than others
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The spread of disease. Possibly the most dramatic, immediate impact of the Columbian Exchange was the spread of diseases. In places where the local population had no or little resistance, especially the Americas, the effect was horrific. Prior to contact, indigenous populations thrived across North and South America.
Detailed explanation-2: -They gained many things such as, crops, like maize and potatoes, land in the Americas, and slaves from Africa. On the other hand the negative impacts of the Columbian Exchange are the spread of disease, death, and slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.”