FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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East; from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas
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West; from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia
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East; from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia
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North; from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Afro-Eurasia, people cultivated mainly barley, rice, sorghum, and wheat. They raised such animals as chickens, cows, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. The animals provided clothing, food, labor, shelter, and transportation.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Corn had the biggest impact, altering agriculture in Asia, Europe, and Africa.