Columbian+Exchange

**__The Columbian Exchange__**

 The Colombian Exchange was a huge exchange of animals, plants, cultures, humans like slaves, ideas, and disease between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres(Old World/New World). It all started with Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492 launching the era of contact between the New and the Old world also explaining where the name Columbian Exchange came from. The New World gave the Old World plants like- maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, para rubber tree, cacao, tobacco, etc. The Old World gave the New World plants like- citrus, apple, banana, mango, onion, coffee, wheat, rice, etc. Most diseases, however, came from the Old World. Things like smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, measles, influenza, and malaria. Animals transported to the New World include- cats, camels, chickens, cows, donkeys, ferrets, domestic goats, domestic geese, bees, horses, domestic rabbits, domestic pigs, rock pigeon, domestic sheep, silkworm, water buffalo, and the guinea fowl. Animals transported from the New World to the Old World include- alpaca, chinchilla, guinea pig, llama, Muscovy duck, and the turkey.