The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange

 1. Europeans brought to Amrerica many diseases such as: smallpox, typhus, measles and chicken pox. 
The "gift" that the New World gave Europeans was veneral syphilis, which showed up in Europe in 1493.

 2. Pigs, because they breed really quickly. They eat everything and they turn into bacon.
Horses- to transport easier and faster

3.The New World food that was exported to Europe was: corn, tomatoes, potatoes, chilies, beans, peanuts, avocados, blueberries and sweet potatoes.

 4. Africans came to America against their will and they were forced to work.

 5. Negative consequences:
- devastated the population of Americas
- the extinction of many species of life form
- spread of slavery in America
Positive consequences:
- the world's human inhabitants became more genetically and ethnically interconnected 
- increase of world's population
- improvment Europeans' diet by introduction of potatoes, tomatoes and corn.

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  1. englishdiary20 marca 2020 03:38

    You were just supposed to answer the blog question (your nr 5) in a paragraph (organised 100-word text), not in the form of two lists.

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