Dbq Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange is one of the greatest exchanges in foods, animals, plants and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492 Christopher Columbus came to America. He saw things he had never seen before so then he decided to take some of them with him to Europe. He started trading routes to initiated an interchange of plants between Eastern and Western, as a result it doubled the resources of the food crop on both sides.

Major edible plants unique to the New World in 1492: maize (corn), potato, squash, cassava (manioc), tomato, bell pepper, chili pepper, avocado, squash, pumpkin, peanut, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, blueberry,

Europe, Asia, and Africa received many goods, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and tobacco. Both types of potato influenced many countries diets including China and Ireland. Tobacco was another important addition to Europe and other places in the Old World. Many people loved it. They could chew it, smoke it and snuff it. These who sold the tobacco made a lot of money. Also, many new vegetables from the New World such as tomatoes, peppers and corn went to the Old World and added to people’s diets, which resulted in better health because they received more nutrition and vitamins from the new foods.

The centuries from 1400 to 1700 were monumental. They marked the first time people from all across the globe were connected socially, politically, and economically. A large contributor to this were the systems of international trade, heralded by advances in maritime technology. The Columbian Exchange, for instance, transported potatoes, corn, and silver from the New World to the Old, and it carried farm animals, vegetables, and slaves from the Old World to the New. Another example is the spice trade between Asia and Europe. This trade network is simulated in an interactive learning experience entitled “Become a Spice Trader.” The purpose of this activity is to educate the participant about the nature of international trade in a fun and engaging manner. I believe that it achieves this goal.

As the Age of Exploration gained momentum in the late 15th century, many European countries began to send explorers out on expeditions. These expeditions were funded with the hopes of expanding territory, discovering new trade routes, and finding riches, but no one knew how significant these expeditions would be for the future of the world. Arguably the most significant expedition was led by Christopher Columbus. In 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain with the goal of finding a Western route to Asia, but instead he stumbled upon a land untouched and previously unknown to the Eastern Hemisphere. He had just “discovered” the Americas. Columbus’ discovery set in motion what is now called the Columbian Exchange; a transfer of plants, animals, diseases, people, technology, and culture between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The Columbian Exchange drastically changed the societies and cultures that were involved, specifically the Africans, the Europeans, and the Native Americans. The Europeans saw the New World as a new beginning and an opportunity to increase their wealth and power, so many voluntarily migrated across the Atlantic, whereas the Africans were forcibly brought over to the Americas to work on plantations, or large farms that focused on a single crop, via the slave trade. The Native Americans also suffered as a result of the Columbian Exchange because, without any sort of natural immunity to European diseases, their people died by the millions and their cultures

The Columbian Exchange began after Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas in 1492. This introduced a lot of things to the new world such as crops, diseases, and the technological advances the europeans made. The Europeans took this opportunity to move to the Americas to gain in wealth. While people moved to the new world to start a new life and pay off debts.The new world was a gain for the countries that took advantage of the opportunity to move in, but when they moved in they kicked others out. The natives to the lands were enslaved and forced to convert to christianity by the Spaniards and they were forced to do work on the farmlands for the englishmen.

The Columbian Exchange, which started around 1492, led to modern industrialization by introducing both the Old and New World new items of trading and diseases. Many of the items brought from England to the Americas had improved the people’s lives, yet there were events that physically affected most of the indigenous people. After discovering the Americas, a prosperous trading system was introduced making Europe one of the greatest commercial and maritime powers in the world. This system was called the Columbian Exchange which began with Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the New World. Many of the items that the Old world introduced to the New World consisted of “wheat, barley, rice, and turnips,” and many of the items the New World introduced

The Columbian Exchange was coined by Alfred Crosby in 1942, which establish the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases during the Old World Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean. The exchange change the world for the best and for ill. It benefited the Europeans and its colonies, but it brought tragedy to the Native Americans. The devastation struck when Spanish came to the New World, unfortunately unaware of their diseases. Indians had not been exposed to smallpox, which resulted the death of 95 percent of the Indian population. “Historians estimate that more than 25 million people lived in central Mexico before Cortes arrived; fifteen years after his arrival, more than 8 million had perished.” (Schultz, p. 30, 2009 ) The diseases had move

were not traveled west across the Atlantic from the old world were wheat, barley, rice, and turnips. There were no

    During the Columbian Exchange there was an exchange of many types of foods. The Old World exchanged Bananas,citrus fruits,peaches, sugar cane,grapes,coffee beans. They exchanged lots of foods with the New World, the New World exchanged corn, , tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins and bunch more. The Columbian Exchange was not just all about the exchange of food. They also had an exchange of native plants. The two most important plants that were exchanged was maize, and potato plants.

Tomatoes are huge in both the Italian culture and the Spanish culture. The tobacco industry in Europe was huge; tobacco was worth a lot because there was such a high demand for it. Same goes for avocados. Avocados are very common in Spanish and other european dishes. However, the Americas were not the only contributors. Europe gave the Americas products like pigs, coffee and sugar. Which are three products that became very popular in American culture. Bacon and pork are two very common foods in America. In fact, they can be considered a staple in America. Coffee is also very popular. It has just become part of the culture. Most would not know what to do without it; Sugar can be considered the most important of them all. In the modern day world, sugar is in almost everything. It is used around the world daily. The trade of new ingredients can be considered a social factor of the formation of the modern world. This is because new ingredients from the trade shaped cultures. New foods in different regions were created, changing some cultures forever.

First, the Columbian Exchange yielded many good as well as bad consequences, which started when Columbus made his journey to the New World in 1492. Native Americans were first introduced to horses, cattle, pigs, and grains. Reciprocally, the Old World gained many new things such as tomatoes, potatoes, corn, tobacco, and cocoa. But with the interaction of many people come diseases, and the Native Americans were by far the hardest hit. The combination of smallpox, measles, mumps,

The Columbian Exchange refers to the biological and cultural exchange which took place between Europe and the newly discovered Americas. Animals, food, metals, and seeds were interchanged between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds. For example, Europeans introduced Americans to non-native crops such as wheat, rye, and rice (Hewitt & Lawson, 2014, 1.11). Furthermore, Europeans also exported cattle and pigs to the indigenous populations, as well as horses (Hewitt & Lawson, 2014, 1.11). Indigenous Americans, in turn, provided Europeans with nutrient-dense foods such as potatoes and maize, in addition to plentiful amounts of silver and gold (Hewitt & Lawson, 2014, 1.11).

After Columbus discovery of the New World much of Europe and the Eastern Hemisphere gained access to indigenous New World food such as potatoes, manioc, squash, maize and beans. Meanwhile, the New World gained access to horses, pigs, cattle, oxen, sheeps and goats (Berkin, Miller, Cherny and Gormly, 2013 18). Food such as tomatoes, chili peppers, and peanuts from Hungary, India,

The natives changed the European diet with their introduction of tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and most of all the potato. These foods would revolutionize the diet of not only the Europeans, but the entire world. In return for the natives contribution to the Europeans, Columbus would return with old world goods such as cows, horses, and swine. They also brought foods like wheat, sugar, rice, and coffee. Although many of the things brought over were beneficial, there were some bad things that were traded. These things seemed to have the largest effect. People from the old world brought over many diseases including, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus,