Columbian Exchange

Exchange

This exchange of plants and animals transformed )

Scarcely any society on earth remained unaffected by this global ecological exchange. Since the voyages of Columbus and his successors, no Kitchen or Garden has ever been the same.

Pre-Columbian distribution of organisms with close ties to humans
Type of organism	'''Old World list (what they had)'''	'''New World list (what they had)'''
Domesticated animals	Camel Cattle Dog Donkey Fowl (several species including chickens) Goat Horse Mouse Pig Rabbit Rat Sheep	Alpaca dog fowl (a few species) Guinea Pig Llama Turkey
Domesticated plants	Black Pepper Bananas Barley Cabbage Coffee Cotton (short staple "Egyptian" variety) Citrus Garlic Lettuce Oat s Onion Peach Pear Rice Rye Sugar Turnip Wheat	Amaranth Avocado Beans Cashew Chia Chicle (chewing gum base) Chili Pepper (includes the bell pepper) Cocoa / Chocolate Cotton (long staple variety, 90% of modern cultivation) Maize (corn) Manioc (cassava) Papaya Peanut Pecan Pineapple Potato Quinoa Rubber Squash (incl. Pumpkin ) Sunflower Strawberry (American species used in modern hybrids) Sweet Potato Tobacco Tomato Vanilla
Infectious diseases	Cholera Influenza Malaria Measles Plague Scarlet Fever Sleeping Sickness Smallpox Tuberculosis Typhoid Yellow Fever	Chagas' Disease Yaws Yellow Fever (American strains)

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