Ashley+Beyer



The Colombian Exchange The Columbian Exchange effected 2 different civilizations in 2 vary different ways. For the Native Americans who inhabited the land before the Europeans, they had life well, without any diseases, with tremendous crops, however this was all about to change. When Christopher Columbus and his crew of prisoners and ex-con men emigrated from his homeland, they brought with them some good things, but unfortunately many negative things that reduced about 90% of the indigenous natives of the Americas. The many diseases that the Europeans brought from new world to old world include: common cold, influenza, leprosy,chicken pox, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, and syphilis. Had Columbus not come to America, not only would the Native Americans still be here but also the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs would be here and we would have very different crops, animals, society, and government as well. Although the Columbian Exchange bring new food, crops, animals, beliefs, religions, writings, transportation, and people, but it also took away the natural life that the Natives tried so hard to protect. The transformation from the Old world to the new world brought many things that we benefited and learned to control, it also brought things that we cannot, and will not be able to control. So all that said, I think that Christopher Columbus would be a villain rather than a hero.