Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the rest of the world that reshaped global ecosystems, diets, populations, and economies.

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instanceOf early modern phenomenon
global exchange network
historical process
alsoKnownAs Columbian Exchange
surface form: Columbian interchange
associatedWith Atlantic slave trade
mercantilism
plantation agriculture
cause European exploration of the Americas
transatlantic navigation
coinedBy Alfred W. Crosby
connects Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
describedIn Columbian Exchange self-linksurface differs
surface form: "The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492"
effect demographic collapse of Indigenous Americans
expansion of Atlantic slave trade
globalization of crops
globalization of livestock
rapid population growth in Eurasia
restructuring of global ecosystems
spread of epidemic diseases
spread of invasive species
transformation of global diets
hasPart transfer of animals
transfer of diseases
transfer of humans
transfer of ideas
transfer of plants
transfer of technologies
historicalPeriod Age of Exploration
early modern period
introducedFromAmericasToOldWorld cacao
cassava
chili pepper
maize
peanut
potato
sweet potato
syphilis
tobacco
tomato
introducedFromOldWorldToAmericas cattle
chickens
coffee
horses
influenza
measles
pigs
rice
sheep
smallpox
sugarcane
typhus
wheat
whooping cough
longTermEffect biological homogenization of continents
changes in land use patterns
integration of world economies
namedAfter Christopher Columbus
publicationDateOfTerm 1972
startTime after 1492
late 15th century
studiedIn economic history
environmental history
world history

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Columbian Exchange alsoKnownAs Columbian Exchange
this entity surface form: Columbian interchange
Christopher Columbus associatedWith Columbian Exchange
New World associatedWith Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange describedIn Columbian Exchange self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: "The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492"
Americas hasHistoricalEvent Columbian Exchange
Age of Exploration hasKeyOutcome Columbian Exchange
Spanish colonization of the Americas hasPart Columbian Exchange
Spanish Empire influenced Columbian Exchange
Alfred W. Crosby notableIdea Columbian Exchange
Alfred W. Crosby notableWork Columbian Exchange
this entity surface form: The Columbian Exchange
Pre-Columbian era relatedConcept Columbian Exchange