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On a Word document, write a short answer (one or two paragraphs of three to four sentences each) responding to the following prompt:

What was the Columbian Exchange? What was exchanged? What was the impact of the Columbian Exchange on both Europeans and Native Americans?

Answer 1

The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named after Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, the Old World, and West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where by 1600 Native American populations on most islands had plummeted by more than 99 percent. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. The disease component of the Columbian Exchange was decidedly one-sided.