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Meaning of “The Columbian Exchange”
Columbian Medical Exchange
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1.Meaning of the Columbian Exchange
“The Columbian Exchange” is the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492.
The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.
Alfred W. Crosby, “The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds” , Praeger Publishers , 2003
Jared Diamond, “Guns, germs, and steel”, Norton, 1997
Erwin H. Ackerknecht, M.D., “A short history of medicine” , Johns Hopkins, 1955
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
