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This 5 page paper discusses the Columbian Exchange and its effects on the people of the New World. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This paper explores the impact of several aspects of the Exchange. Discussion For millions of years, the "dominant pattern of biological evolution on this planet" has been dictated by the
fact that there is substantial geographical distance between the continents.1 This divergence meant that even where climates are similar, as in the Congo and the Amazon, species are more different
than they are alike.2 But in the last few thousand years, this pattern changed as commerce among peoples increased; today we are world-travelers, trekkers of deserts and crossers of oceans.3
As humans travel, they take certain things with them on purpose, such as domesticated animals and crops; they also take things they dont even know theyre carrying, such as weeds,
diseases and vermin.4 Traveling as we do has changed the world. Crosby says that many of the "most spectacular and the most influential examples of this are in the category
of the exchange of organisms between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres."5 The first such exchange took place millennia ago when Amerindians (the first humans) came to the New World and
brought with them "a number of other Old World species and subspecies, for instance, themselves, an Old World species, and possibly the domesticated dog, and the tuberculosis bacillus."6 However, there
were few of these because the people who came were mostly hunter-gatherers who had "domesticated very few organisms" and who probably came from Siberia, "where the climate kept the number
of humans low and the variety of organisms associated with them to a minimum."7 There were other exchanges between East and West, including the Vikings and probably Japanese fisherman, but
these had little impact on the situation.8 The great era of biological exchange didnt start until 1492, when Europeans began to arrive in the New World; a series of contacts
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