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Columbian exchange time line
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The Comlumbian exchange
Timeline of good exchanges.
The start of the exchange
START
The exchange started in 1492 when Columbus arived to the Americas. which started a world wide exchange of goods.
The genral effects
Effects
The Columbian exchange had many positive and negative effects of the world and collective learning. Each thing exchanged greatly effected one place or another.
Pigs Impact.
Pigs
(1492)
Old world (Spain) to New world, brought by Spanish explorers pigs had a a large impact on the live stock economy. This is because of their quick adapting to new enviornments and reproductive speed. Those two thing made them great for meat.
Negative effects.
Effect
though positive for a time the pigs high reproductive rate and the new worlds enviornment made feral pigs common. And pigs in such high numbers without many predators can quickly throw the natural balance out of control. A large part of this is that pigs can root and wollow the soil.
Potatos importants.
New world to Old world. Potatos are important because it helped to improve diets, increase food security, and support population growth in Europe. This was because of their nutritional value and how easy they are to grow in large numbers.
Potatos
(1493)
Effect
Like many other crops from the new World potatoes were brought back to Spain by Columbus. It was from there that Potatoes became a staple all over Europe, basiclly becoming necessary to the lives of many. But relying completly on one crop can lead to femine, which is what happend in Ireland.
Effect
The horrid, Slave trade
The horrendous act of seeing others as property and making them work with no reward, that was the slave trade.
Slave Trade
(1502)
Cause
The start of the slave trade was primarily driven by the demand for labor in the New World colonies, particularly in the production of cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton. And so in the early 1500's till the 1900's Europeans forced transportation of millions of African individuals to the New World to work as slaves.
Cause
Long time effect
The slave trade caused profound and long-lasting effects on the societies, cultures, and economies of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. The effects were different for each of those zones but those effects are still felt today, with racisim and slavery still effecting many places in the world.
Effect
Corn (New world to Old)
The crop grown originally in the Americas like the potatos were very good crop. It shares many of the same positives that potatos had. But unlike potatos, corn had an effect on every major world zone.
Maize (corn)
(1490-1600)
Cause
Similar to many other American original crops they were brought to Europe by Spanish explorers and quickly spread to other parts of the world.
Small pox (Old to New world)
Small pox
(1520-1796)
Smallpox is a highly contagious and often deadly infectious disease caused by the variola virus. The disease is characterized by fever and a rash of pus-filled blisters that spread all over the body, causing severe scarring and often leading to blindness, limb deformities, and in some cases, death. Smallpox is highly contagious.
Cause during the exchange
Like many other diseases they came to the new world by Europeans traveling there. And from there Natives in the Americas had no immunity so it would spread quick
Cause
The effect
Effect
With no immunity the Native Americans were dying at alarming rates. The disease and others like it killed millions and were the cause for the fall of large empires like the Aztecs. Even killing an estimated 30-90% of the Indigenous population in some regions.
Medicine/ herbs
The exchange of different medical herbs were from both Old to new and new to old. Like Quinine from the Americas which treats maleria. Or Chamomile from Europe.
Medical herbs/plants
positive long term effects
Effect
The Columbian Exchange led to the globalization of medicine and the sharing of knowledge about the use of medicinal plants. It also led to the development of new treatments and cures that have had a lasting impact on medicine and healthcare.
Rice (Old world to New)
Brought to the Americas by European exploerers. Rice was silimar to the other crops like corn or potatos in the way that they are easy to grow. This caused a great impact to the economy like other crops.
Rice
(1685)
Crops positive an negative effects
Effect
Even with the benifit of an easy to grow grain it came with down sides. Somthing I failed to mention for the other crops is that they require a large amount of labor impacting the slave trade. And for rice it's cultivation led to the destruction of wetlands and other ecosystems. The widespread cultivation of rice also contributed to soil degradation, erosion, and other environmental problems.
Silver (New to old world)
The material was one of high depemand as after it's findings in America by explorers it was used to finance the Spanish empire and trade with other countries.
Sliver
(1600-1900)
Effect
Silver held a very strong grip on the worlds economy changing it for years. But this meant that the the demand for silver helped to drive the transatlantic slave trade and other forms of forced labor. The extraction of silver also had significant environmental and social impacts on the regions where it was mined, including the displacement of Indigenous communities and the destruction of ecosystems.