FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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the widespread sale of opium in North America
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Simon Bolivar’s freedom movement in what is now Colombia
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the exchange of goods to and from the Americas and Europe
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the fee exchanged between Christopher Columbus and the Queen of Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Columbian Exchange caused population growth in Europe by bringing new crops from the Americas and started Europe’s economic shift towards capitalism. Colonization disrupted ecosytems, bringing in new organisms like pigs, while completely eliminating others like beavers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Causes of the Columbian Exchange The exchange of goods across the Atlantic began following Europe’s conquest of the Americas and the construction of European-controlled societies and economies. The Columbian Exchange resulted from Europeans’ exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian Exchange transported plants, animals, diseases, technologies, and people one continent to another. Crops like tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cacao, peanuts, and pumpkins went from the Americas to rest of the world.