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Could you think of what life without many plants, animals, food, or diseases would be like? It wouldn’t be for the better and our world would go downhill if none of these had come out of the Columbian Exchange. Items like these are part of the New World and were brought forward thanks to Christopher Columbus. The New World brought things from the Old World to America which created new items that people could use. The Spaniards took back many items from the New World to help them survive, things such as corn, chili, pumpkins, tomatoes, and the most important plants, the potatoes. Although the exchange helped the Spaniards, it did not do any good for the Indians. It actually severely hurt their population. A disease called small pox came about and killed of many of their people. The Native Americans evidently sent a dreadful disease back to sickness called French pox, or the Spanish sickness, back to Europe. Other than diseases Native Americans brought a good, abundant supply of fish. They discovered sea fishing once the fish population began to die off. Could you imagine going to Florida or California and there being no fish? Fires couldn’t burn without timber right? Well thanks to the Europeans we can easily access wood for our fires. They discovered cutting down trees to use the timber for supplies such as fire, or even ships! The Columbian Exchange changed the world we have today for the better for many obvious reasons.