USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This was a movement of people, animals, plants, culture and even disease between Eastern and Western hemispheres.
A
Epidemic
B
Culture Exchange
C
Columbian Exchange
D
Devastation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The historian Alfred Crosby first used the term “Columbian Exchange” in the 1970s to describe the massive interchange of people, animals, plants and diseases that took place between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after Columbus’ arrival in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The list of infectious diseases that spread from the Old World to the New is long; the major killers include smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria (Denevan, 1976, p.

Detailed explanation-3: -From the Eastern Hemisphere, explorers brought illnesses such as smallpox and malaria. Native Americans who were living in the Western Hemisphere had never been exposed to these diseases, and thus their bodies had built up no immunities to them. Consequently, millions of native peoples perished.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian exchange is a term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972 that is traditionally defined as the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas.

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