1. Discuss the positive and negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange.

What are the parallels/similarities (if any) with the globalization of today?
Brief introduction of the Columbian exchange Positives: - Before 1000 AD, potatoes were not grown outside of South America. By the
1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that a diseased crop led to the devastating Great Famine.
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Since being introduced by 16th-century Portuguese traders, who

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brought them from the Americas,

maize andmanioc replaced traditional African crops as the

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continent's most important staple food crops.

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16th-century Spanish colonizers introduced

new staple crops to Asia from the Americas, including maize and sweet potatoes, contributed to the population growth in Asia. European exploration of tropical areas was aided by the New
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World discovery of quinine, the first effective treatment for malaria.

One of the first European exports, the horse, changed the lives of many Native American tribes on the mountains, allowing them to shift to a nomadiclifestyle based on hunting bison on horseback.
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Tomato sauce, made from New World tomatoes, became an Italian trademark

and tomatoes were widely used in America, while coffee from South America and sugar cane from The Indies became the main commodity crops of extensive Latin American plantations. Introduced to India by the Portuguese, chili/paprika from South America is today an integral part of Indian cuisine, as are potatoes.

-The introduction of the potato in Europe sharply reduced once frequent famines.
Negatives:
Bring old world diseases to the new world, and vice versa Huge decrease in the old world population as a result of the new world diseases Slavery

Parallels to globalization