What were things exchanged during the Colombian exchange?

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AND WHO BENEFITED

Answer 1

Maybe if you post this in the History forum you'll get more replies even though the other person's answer is pretty good.

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Answer 2

It was "the colUmbian exchange" and it had nothing to do with the country of ColOmbia. Maybe if you posted your question somewhere else you'd get more answers.

The Columbian Exchange was a cultural as well as a biological exchange of the New World that occurred as the result of Columbus’s discovery.  

It was an exchange between the Europeans and the Indians.  

This exchange of plants, animals, and pathogens has changed the natural environment of the eastern and western hemispheres.  

The Old World crops that were brought to the New World were wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, bananas, olives. Animals such as horses, cows, pigs, and chickens.

The New World brought to the Old World, gold, silver,  tobacco, and cotton.

Also corn, potatoes, tomatoes, lima beans, squash, peanuts, cassava, cacao, beans, vanilla, chocolate, and pineapple.

The Americas contributed also to a form of syphilis that the Europeans received. In exchange,  the Europeans brought many diseases such as smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.  

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