Columbian+Exchange+Consequences


 * When american traded corn to the middle east, china's population grew eminently, because it is easy to grow and very nutrient.
 * The Colombian exchange increased the food supply and productivity.
 * It also damaged the ecological stability of many large areas.
 * America received many domestic animals like horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, and fowl(bird kept for eggs and meat).[[image:per4keenanandjerry/20070528_cow.jpg width="299" height="391"]]
 * Even though the animals provided valuable food, clothing, and energy sources, they caused mixed emotions in the indians because the animals severely damaged important croplands.
 * America also received plants like black pepper, barley, wheat, rice, lettuce, sugarcane, and rhubarb.
 * North America was initially introduced to diseases such as; THE BUBONIC PLAGUE, chicken pox, cholera, influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, thyphoid, typhus,yellow fever, and yaws.
 * It killed off most of the indian population since the native people had no immunity to these diseases.