FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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North America
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Australia
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Detailed explanation-1: -The effects of the Columbian Exchange were not isolated to the parts of the world most directly participating in the exchange: Europe and the Americas. It also had large, although less direct, impacts on Africa and Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus’s voyage connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa in a web of exchange that transformed the environments of the Old World and the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -It triggered mass African migration, the rise of African communities, the toppling of African empires, and the advent of racism against slaves. This led them to explore new fertile and sunny lands near the equator as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -A term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972, the Columbian exchange is understood as the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Columbian exchange caused inflation in Europe, change in hunting habits of Native Americans, change in farming habits within Europe, and a large decrease of Native American populations.