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Columbian Exchange

Eurasia to Americas

Americas to Eurasia

Diseases

smallpox, measles, influenza, diphtheria, whooping cough, chicken pox, typhus syphilis (a.k.a. “the pox”)

Animals

horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens (great pasture land) turkey

Crops

Wheat, rice, vines, citrus, banana, tree fruits, grapes, sugarcane, weeds, coffee, onion. (From Africa: Yams, okra, collard) maize, potatoes (white and sweet), beans, tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, cassava/manioc, squash, vanilla, papayas, guavas, avocados, pineapples, cacao, tobacco

People

Military, businessmen, poor immigrants, slave labor

Other

religion Silver and Gold, Quinine

© 2005, 2008 – Jonathan Dresner

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