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Columbian Exchange and Slave Trade

Columbian Exchange and Slave Trade. Used to describe 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.

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Columbian Exchange and Slave Trade

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  1. Columbian Exchange and Slave Trade • Used to describe 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. • In that year, Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds that resulted in this ecological revolution: hence the name "Columbian" Exchange.

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