The Columbian Exchange had both positive and negative consequences for American Indians. Explain two positive consequences and two negative consequences.

Answer 1

The Colombian Exchange was the trade of goods between people of the old world and the new world during the Age of Exploration. Ultimately the Colombian Exchange caused more food to be grown and harvested. Also, new technologies are now being used on a larger scale. Moreover, diseases spread because of close contact between people and cattle of the new world and the old world who met for the first time.

Two positives of the Colombian Exchange are

1. New Technologies were given to the new world from the old world. For example, compasses, navigational maps, muskets, and gun powder were brought from the old world to the new world.
2. New crops and livestock were brought from the old world to the new world. For example, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, sugar cane, barley, rye, and rice came from Asia and Europe to the new world.

Two negatives of the Colombian Exchange are

1. Diseases from the old world spread to the new world killing settlers, livestock, and Native Americans. Examples of diseases brought from the old world to the new world are chicken pox, measles, malaria, whooping cough, smallpox, bubonic plague, and typhus.
2. Spanish was greedy when coming to the new world.

ex: The Spanish wanted all the Native Americans' gold, crops, and land for themselves.