Question

100 POINTS AND BRAINLIEST! Help me please (High school World History)
1. Write an essay on one unintended consequence of the Columbian Exchange. To begin, read the examples of actions and consequences below, and note how each consequence was unintended. • Some European sailors have smallpox. They come in contact with Native Americans and pass the disease on to them. The disease devastates whole cultures. • Europeans take potatoes back to the New World. Some European countries become overly dependent on the potato as a main food source. • Affluent Europeans buy sugar from the New World. The slave trade burgeons as European colonists buy slaves to work on sugar cane plantations. • Conquistadors bring horses with them to the New World. Plains Indians and other Native Americans become expert horsemen.

Answer 1

The most significant and positive effect of the Colombian exchange was the introduction of New World crops, such as potatoes and corn, to the Old World.

Explanation:

The Colombian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.

The Colombian Exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the Atlantic. Advancements in agricultural production, evolution of warfare, increased mortality rates and education are a few examples of the effect of the Colombian Exchange on both Europeans and Native Americans.