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Columbian Exchange
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Two ecosystems (naturally evolved networks of organisms in a stable
environment) commingled and clashed when Columbus waded ashore the
Americas. The flora and fauna of the Old and New Worlds had been separated for
thousands of years.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/03/06.html
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Native New World plants such as tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and especially
the lowly potato eventually revolutionized the world economy as well as the European diet, feeding the rapid
population growth of the Old World.
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These foods were among the most important Indian gifts to the Europeans and the rest of the world. Perhaps three-fifths of the crops
cultivated around the globe today originated in the Americas.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbianb.htm
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In exchange the Europeans introduced Old World crops and animals to the Americas. Columbus returned to the
Caribbean islands in 1493 with seventeen ships that unloaded twelve
hundred men with cattle, pigs, and horses.
http://www.organic-pork.co.uk/animals.asp
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North American tribes like the Apaches, Sioux, and Blackfoot swiftly adopted the horse, transforming their cultures into
highly mobile, wide-ranging hunter societies that roamed the grassy Great Plains in
pursuit of the buffalo.
http://www.old-picture.com/indians/Apache-Riding-Horses.htm
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The horses soon reached the North American mainland through Mexico and in less than two centuries had spread as
far as Canada.
http://www.irwinator.com/120/ch2.htm
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Columbus brought seedlings of sugar cane, which thrived in the warm Caribbean
climate. A “sugar revolution” took place in the European diet, spurring the slavery of
millions of Africans to work the cane fields of the New World.
Sugarcane plantation
Slaves packed on a slave ship
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Unknowingly, the Europeans brought other organisms in the dirt on their boots and
the dust on their clothes, such as the seeds of Kentucky bluegrass, dandelions,
and daisies.
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Worst of all, in their bodies they carried the germs that caused smallpox, yellow
fever, and malaria. Indeed Old World diseases quickly devastated the Native
Americans.
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Enslavement and armed aggression took their toll, but the deadliest killers were
microbes, not muskets. The lethal germs spread among the New World peoples with
the speed and force of a hurricane.
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In the centuries after Columbus’ landfall, as many as 90 percent of the Native
Americans died, a demographic catastrophe without parallel in human
history.
http://www.education.mcgill.ca/EDEE-382B-01/mccaig/project
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