Mallory+McCasky

Imagine life in America without farming, language, and technology. I don’t know about you, but I believe America wouldn’t survive without technology. We can thank Columbus for these things that have now completed America. Although the exchange brought disease and caused many of the big animals in North America to go extinct, it brought many good things with it also. Things such as potatoes, horses, cows, pigs, sheep, and wool. These Americans also discovered the fish. It was their most abundant food supply until agriculture began to limit them. However they found a way around this problem, sea fishing! How would you feel if you went to a restaurant and they didn’t offer fish! Have you ever felt jealous of something someone else has and you don’t? That’s how America felt, I imagine, towards Europe before the exchange. Europe had books, wheels, and communication! America had none of that. Now yes Europe had those sources, but America had other useful things such as natural abundance, food, and land that will all last them in the long run. Food then became abundant to America because Europe brought along peach, plum, and pear trees! Now you know where we get all our tasty, fresh fruit. Although Europe did have an advantage on America; the bee! The European bee could live anywhere all throughout Europe and pollinated anything! Europe required a lot of supplies, things such as sugar and tobacco; whereas America did not ask for anything. With Columbus he also brought along slaves, this highly benefitted Europeans and their land. All of this would never have been possible without the creation of plants and animals in the Americas!