Diseases, Food, Animals.
Diseases brought to America during the Columbian Exchange include smallpox, chicken pox, typhus, typhoid, measles, cholera, influenza, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and bubonic plague. The most deadly of these diseases for the native population were smallpox, chicken pox, measles, typhus, whooping cough and bubonic plague. Eventually killed around 90% of the native population. The American Indians, not having been familiar to the bacteria only created in heavily populated cities, were not immune and therefore quickly fell ill and usually died.
To the Europeans land equaled wealth. The majority of settlers were poor whose life kind of sucked. Most of Europe’s poor owned little to no land and died still poor. Colonists brought Farm tools, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, wheat and seeds.
Once the people of Central Africa got a hold of planting it quickly became one of the mains of the African diet. The same thing happened with Indian maize. When it was introduced Europeans couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Afterwards Europeans saw corn as food only fit for animals. These new food crops caused population explosions around the world. The availability of new food happening at the same time as new machines to do the farming led to an agricultural revolution.
The exchange of animals went largely one way. Most animals came from the old world and were introduced to the new world. The animals were pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, cattle, oxen, donkeys, and horses. The introduction of the animals revolutionized farming and agriculture in the new world. The Native Americans had no animals that were domesticated and could be use as transportation or be utilized for farming and also raised to provide meat. The domesticated animals also played a major role in the decline of the native population in the Americans. They were often the carriers and creators of new diseases that could mutate and attack humans.
To the Europeans land equaled wealth. The majority of settlers were poor whose life kind of sucked. Most of Europe’s poor owned little to no land and died still poor. Colonists brought Farm tools, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, wheat and seeds.
Once the people of Central Africa got a hold of planting it quickly became one of the mains of the African diet. The same thing happened with Indian maize. When it was introduced Europeans couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Afterwards Europeans saw corn as food only fit for animals. These new food crops caused population explosions around the world. The availability of new food happening at the same time as new machines to do the farming led to an agricultural revolution.
The exchange of animals went largely one way. Most animals came from the old world and were introduced to the new world. The animals were pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, cattle, oxen, donkeys, and horses. The introduction of the animals revolutionized farming and agriculture in the new world. The Native Americans had no animals that were domesticated and could be use as transportation or be utilized for farming and also raised to provide meat. The domesticated animals also played a major role in the decline of the native population in the Americans. They were often the carriers and creators of new diseases that could mutate and attack humans.