Me (high school world history)

1. write an essay on one unintended consequence of the columbian exchange. to begin, read the examples of actions and consequences below, and note how each consequence was unintended. • some european sailors have smallpox. they come in contact with native americans and pass the disease on to them. the disease devastates whole cultures. • europeans take potatoes back to the new world. some european countries become overly dependent on the potato as a main food source. • affluent europeans buy sugar from the new world. the slave trade burgeons as european colonists buy slaves to work on sugar cane plantations. • conquistadors bring horses with them to the new world. plains indians and other native americans become expert horsemen.

needs to be at least 5 paragraphs long

It is called the Columbian exchange to the process occurred between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in which agricultural products and other foods of the New World (the American continent) in the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) and vice versa were made known. A broader definition also includes technological advances, demographics and even diseases.

The colonization of America is one of the most controversial episodes in history, since its consequences, harmful for some and providential for others, continue to be latent in the conscience and in the political and social reality of the peoples.  In the first place, the meeting did not really take place between two continents, but between America and the rest of the world, since the European continent, at least on a mercantile level, had previously had fruitful exchanges with the most remote lands and villages in the world. East, and Spain assumed, at the time of the colonization of America, an eminently catalytic function, a necessary bridge for that incipient "globalization" to materialize.

very few of the agricultural and livestock products that brought the first Spanish settlers to America were really native to the Old Continent. The majority of these products and the agrarian knowledge that they implied were, on the contrary, the result of a secular commercial expansion that, mainly from the East, was initiated by peoples such as the Phoenicians, the Etruscans, the Greeks or the Romans.

On the other hand we see that The most lethal of the pathogens introduced by the Europeans was smallpox, which at times incapacitated so many adults at the same time that the deaths from hunger and starvation ran as high as deaths from the disease, and in several cases , whole tribes were extinguished.

The Columbian Exchange was one of the greatest periods of change in the whole world in the common era or after Christ. Like most major transitions, there were drawbacks, such as the spread of the disease, but the primary benefit of the exchange was that it integrated the Old World and the New World from two isolated continents into a cohesive global community and allowed the continuation of progress due to the dissemination of ideas, and without the transfer of species, information and cultural elements from different areas during the Columbian exchange, we would not have the technology or the varieties of animals and plants that we see in the world today .