Columbian Exchange Diseases From New World. List of the cons of the columbian exchange. The columbian exchange influenced technological advances in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Two worlds that had grown apart with very different organisms started to become homogeneous (crosby, 1972). The columbian exchange was the trade of goods crops, food, technology, diseases between the new world (americas) and the old world (europe). The columbian exchange started when christopher columbus made his first voyage into the americas in 1492.
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The exchange began within the first few years of columbus’s arrival. The columbian exchange is an interchange of plants, ideas, diseases and many more things traded between the new world and the old world during the 15th and 16th century. Like many other diseases in the columbian exchange, the undeveloped immunity to this disease caused it to wipe out a substantial amount of people. Therefore, some diseases also spread from the new world to the old world.