FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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The Columbian Exchange is best defined as
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Exchange of plants, animals, disease, and technology between the rest of the world following Columbus’s voyage
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The relationship between people in different parts of the world
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The story of how Columbus came to North America
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Everything Columbus brought back to Spain after his first voyage
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Columbian Exchange is the term given to the transfer of plants, animals, disease, and technology between the Old World from which Columbus came and the New World which he found. Some exchanges were purposeful-the explorers intentionally brought animals and food-but others were accidental.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most devastating component of the Columbian exchange was the transfer of Old World diseases to the Americas. Among the lethal germs were smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, chickenpox, typhus, and influenza.
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