FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Africans were moving around the world
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Africans were being taken by Europeans to the Americas as slaves
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There was a drought that killed all the crops
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There was a civil war
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conditions were horrible. Diseases spread in the small spaces, and as many as 20% of Africans died before even arriving in the Americas. Survivors were sold into brutal slavery, working in mines or on farms growing cash crops. The Columbian Exchange was the beginning of the modern system of international trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Plants from the Americas transformed life in Europe, Asia, and Africa. They not only changed cuisine and culture but resulted in major economic and environmental shifts. This is because many of the new crops, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, and cassava, were calorically rich and quickly became staple crops.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.