Discussion Topic The Columbian Exchange is the name given to the widespread exchange of plants,
animals, and communicable diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
that occurred after 1492. It has been called one of the most significant events in the
history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. What were some of the benefits to the
Europeans? What were some of the benefits to the American Indians? What do you
think was the most important change that took place as a result of the Columbian
Exchange? Why do you think so?

Columbian Exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ecological provinces that had been torn apart by continental drift millions of years ago were suddenly reunited by oceanic shipping, particularly in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyages that began in 1492. The consequences profoundly shaped world history in the ensuing centuries, most obviously in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The phrase “the Columbian Exchange” is taken from the title of Alfred W. Crosby’s 1972 book, which divided the exchange into three categories: diseases, animals, and plants

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