USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In similar fashion, African slaves forced to come to the New World unwittingly, became a part of the Columbian Exchange as their forced labors further entrenched European control over the New World.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Columbian Exchange affected African people by bringing countless numbers of them to the New World as slaves. They worked on plantations to grow crops such as sugar cane and tobacco. It also stimulated European colonialism in Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -The people already living in the Americas suffered many epidemics following contact with Europeans, and the death toll was massive. Large cities were nearly wiped out. Some communities on the Caribbean islands lost most of their people. Between 1492 and 1650, the population of indigenous Americans decreased rapidly.