Effects Of The Columbian Exchange

The Colombian Exchange was an extensive exchange between the eastern and western hemispheres as knows as the Old World and New World. The Columbian exchange greatly affects almost every society. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus came to America, he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back with him to Europe. When the Europeans explored the Americas, they were introduced to new plants, foods, and animals, as well as riches and land. The plants involved in the Columbian Exchange both changed the economy and the culture in the New and Old Worlds. There was a large amount of new plants discovered in the Americas including wheat, potatoes, peppers, sugar cane, corn, peanuts and etc. Plants like Potatoes and corn was easy to plant. Europeans enjoyed eating these foods and it became an everyday diet. Sugar cane came around when slave trade started. African slaves took care of the hard labor of handling sugar cane. Sugar cane was used for tea, sugar, and chocolate. The poor people greatly benefited of the new plants that had came.The trading of plants and creatures changed the lifestyles for the Europeans, Americans, Africans, and Asians permitting the zones to flow a variety of new products and animals which increased population.

Animals like sheep, cattle, and horses greatly impacted many

Columbus' discoveries opened up opportunities for growth in wealth and power for Spain. . Rulers paid explorers like Columbus to go on trips and other new things. Although Columbus was unable to find his meant destination, he was one of the first to discover the Americas and Spain made money from his discovery. The Columbian Exchange was the beginning of what would later become a growing triangle of trade between the Western and Eastern. The Columbian Exchange was just the beginning of the spread of valuable supplies and culture between Europe and the