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Ashley Cochran Period 7 Could You Live Without Bacon? The Colombian exchange has had a mostly positive effect on the development of our country because the Europeans came over to the new world and introduced new animals, plants and other goods to Native Americans who had never seen them before. In 1492, this trade brought pigs, cows, wheat and even llamas to the population. If Europeans didn’t bring pigs over we would not have bacon, could you live without bacon?

The expansion of Britain to the new world opened so many possibilities for their growing population and need for space. Once they found the new world and an abundance of unused land their world grew tremendously. Bringing over new items to America wasn’t all, they benefited from taking things home to Europe as well. Potatoes brought a new era for Europe especially to Ireland and continued to bring home exciting goods from America to those who stayed. Overall, despite the hardships on Native Americans the Colombian exchange brought a new way of live to everyone involved and created new traditions and ways of life. If we didn’t have this exchange our lives would be different today.