17 sept. 1498 - Columbian Exchange

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- Slaves lost identity
- Emergence of early form of Manifest Destiny
- European population doubled bc of food
- Europeans came to the Americas & slaves were brought from Africa to the Americas
- Start of America
- Got fur and lumber from Americas
- Pigs were taken from New World
- Horses were brought Eurasia to New World
- Potatoes were taken from New World
- Atlantic slave trade
- Smallpox (Old World to New World)
- Syphillis (New World to Old World)
- World became biologically similar and monoculture
- Sedentary tribes became nomadic bc of horses
- Aztecs and Inca wiped out

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