Question

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What do you think? Was the Columbian Exchange overall impact on the world positive or Negative? Give two reasons with examples/evidence.

Answer 1

The Columbian Exchange refers to the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, culture, and human populations across the Atlantic from the so-called Old World to the New World and vice-versa. The term was first coined in 1972 by Alfred W. Crosby in his book The Columbian Exchange . The title refers...

A positive effect of the Columbian exchange was the introduction of New World crops, such as potatoes and corn, to the Old World. A significant negative effect was the enslavement of African populations and the exchange of diseases between the Old and New Worlds.

Answer 2

Answer:

A bit of both.

Explanation:

Positives:

- Permenantly connected the Old and New Worlds together. After 1492, ships were always sailing back and forth between these two regions.

- Exhange of goods, culture and religion. Goods from the New World and Europe swapped as well as cultural idea and religions such as Catholicism made its way from Europe to the New World. The Italians wouldn’t have tomatoes to make their sauce if it weren’t for the exchange.

Negatives:

- Spread of disease. Diseases such as smallpox and influenza from the Europeans was spread to the indigenous peoples of the Americas who had no natural immunity to them and were almost wiped out, over 80% of the native population died out. A specific strain of syphillis caused problems in Europe too from the New World.

- Loss of Native Culture. Most indigenous tribes passed their beliefs down orally and rarely in records you can hold unless later recorded. With the vast majority of the natives dying out from disease, we have lost information about the culture of the natives in the generation during the exchange.