In the columbian exchange global trade was a major part of our history. North america and africa and europe were major players in this exchange. Global trade became a big success in the columbian exchange, things that america, europe, africa, exchanged with each other was food, tools, gold, silver, other kinds of goods to.

In the columbian exchange people traded food and animal’s tool’s and other kinds of things and also slaves were traded types of food traded were sweet potato, peppers, tomato, corn, caco beans, sugar cane, banana, peach pear, honey bee, live stock was new in north america, like cattle, sheep, pig, horse. In document 2 it shows you that indian natives started breeding cattle and they also started haveresting sow wheat making into bread. And selling it. They had also planted there our lands of fruit and trees.

Another impact was that with all that silver and gold the spainards became rich. The more they collected gold and sliver the more they became richer. The spainard’s didn’t really exchange gold,sliver with the native people they stole it from them. The native people were used as slaves to dig up the gold and sliver for the spainards. In document 4 it shows you they have exported 6 million ounces …show more content…
The disease that were passed around was, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diptheria, whooping cough, but the worst was small pox. The indigenous people from north america got infected with smallpox. In document 5 miguel leon- portilla showed the effects of smallpox on the aztec people were really bad. The native people couldn’t move or talk. No one could really help them. A lot of the native people died of smallpox and also people starved to death. The postive thing was the european’s got new slaves. The negative is that a lot of african slaves died and the native aztec people kept dying of smallpox. The the impact on global trade was that all this trading came diseases and human population