The Columbian Exchange is similar as if you trading something for receiving something that you’ve never seen before and neither did the other guy. The exchange made it where a different countries could experiment and revolutionize with the items that were brought from the other world. Plants, animals, people, and diseases changed the Americas and the Europeans history.
During the age of exploration, many ships were hauling cattle and crops, they didn’t know that they carrying an unknown passenger, smallpox. It’s a disease that was very easily contagious, that caused high fever, fatigue, headaches, and backaches. Also smallpox killed somewhat one third of Europe’s population. And the Europeans were sailing to the new land to transfer the goods. In a few days, less than fifty percent of the Americas were infected. The explorers left and brought something with them, obliviously some new cattle and crops, they also brought syphilis. It was more like a STD and can be caught by touching an infected person or sexually. The disease kick in Europe in 1493. Many Europeans, like the Italians called the French disease, the French called it the Disease of Naples, Poland called it the German Disease, and Russia called it the Polish disease. Mainly everyone didn’t know who brought the disease to Europe. …show more content…
Many of that was the slave trade. Europeans would go to Africa and trade with the Africans for African slaves in exchange for crops, cattle, money, or even weapons. And the slaves went their way to the Americas. Boats would carry up to 400 African slaves in one boat. One reason was to increase the population in Europe due to infectious disease that has been going. Then later on the population became way too much to handle and move the population to Asia. Then move the population to the Americas, which devastated American’s population with the wide spread of slavery of the