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Columbian Exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyages that began in 1492.
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.
What was the Columbian exchange? A term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972, the Columbian exchange is understood as the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas. How did the Columbian exchange change the world?
This map illustrates the Columbian Exchange, a significant event following Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas. The exchange represents the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and diseases between the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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This Columbian Exchange map details important plants, animals and diseases that were exchanged as part of the Columbian Exchange.
An infographic illustrating the exchange of diseases, animals, plants, populations, and technology between the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia in the wake of Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage across the Atlantic, known as the "Columbian Exchange" (from Alfred W. Crosby's 1972 book with the same name.)