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-Native New World plants like tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes, helped the economy and the European diet, feeding the population of the Old World. - these were some of the important Indian gifts to the Europeans and others.
-About 3/5 of the crops today originated in the Americas.
-The Europeans exchanged Old World crops and animals to the Americas.
-Columbus returned with 17 ships that unloaded 1200 men with cattle, horses & pigs. Brought sugar can which flourished in the caribbean.
-North America tribes: Apaches, Sioux, Blackfoot used horses to transform their culture into highly mobile hunters that roamed the Great Plains in pursuit of the buffalo.
- Horses reach North America thru Mexico and then to Canada.
- Europeans brought seed flowers (dandelions, bluegrass and daisies on their shoes and clothes); diseases (smallpox, malaria, yellow fever). 90% of the Natives died off after Columbus landfall.
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-Since Columbus exchange the different species & variation of species has diminished.
- Natives did not respond well to the Europeans coming over
DISEASE: Most Natives died by diseases brought; some died by starvation leading to malnutrition which made them more susceptible to diseases. Syphilis was spread from sailors who returned from the Americas.
-Natives brought tobacco. More soldiers died from smoking during WWII than died from the war.
ANIMALS: Pigs bread very quickly, no famine; Europeans came to the Americas to eat. Hunting buffalo made them more nomadic & brought them more money.
PLANTS: (MOST IMPORTANT THING BROUGHT OVER- New world food, main reason why the population .
PEOPLE: Afrikaners made their way to the Americas as slaves.
