Columbian Exchange Significance Apush. The european colonies received wheat grain and livestock in abundance. This is the columbian exchange.
Ecological provinces that had been torn apart by continental drift millions of years ago were suddenly reunited by oceanic shipping, particularly in the wake of christopher columbus’s voyages that began in 1492. One of the major negative effects seen by the columbian exchange was the spreading of disease. Probably the thing that had the biggest affect in the columbian exchange was the transfer of old world diseases to the new world.
The european colonies received wheat grain and livestock in abundance.
This essay will first talk about the slavery that happened during the columbian exchange. The period spans from before columbus' arrival to the founding of jamestown. Apush timeline created by jennifer.2001. View a visualization of the columbian exchange.