USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Economically, the population decrease brought by the Columbian Exchange indirectly caused a drastic labor shortage throughout the Americas, which eventually contributed to the establishment of African slavery on a vast scale in the Americas.

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 connected almost all of the world through new networks of trade and exchange. The inter-continental transfer of plants, animals, knowledge, and technology changed the world, as communities interacted with completely new species, tools, and ideas.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is named after the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and is related to the European colonization and global trade following his 1492 voyage. Some of the exchanges were purposeful; some were accidental or unintended.