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The Columbian Exchange

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1 The Columbian Exchange

2 Columbian Exchange Explorers brought products between Europe and the Americas. This leads to changes in the foods, animals, ideas, people and diseases. Results: better nutrition, more flavor and population changes.

3 Columbian Exchange peppers, peanuts, potato, corn, tomato,
tobacco, squash, sweet potato, pumpkin, turkey, pineapple, vanilla & cocoa Europe/Africa/Asia coffee bean, sugar cane, honey bee, banana, onion, pear, citrus fruit, diseases, grains and livestock Americas Columbian Exchange

4 Grains: Livestock: Diseases: Wheat, rice, barley, oats
Horse, Cattle, Sheep, Pig Diseases: Measles, small pox, influenza, typhus, whooping cough

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