1. The Columbian Exchange
... , measles, and smallpox taking the greatest toll on them. More developing diseases such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and pneumonia would be compounded by nutritional, sanitation, and labor conditions in colonial America. Disease also traveled back eastward with Columbus and fellow explorers, affecting large numbers of European men and women. Another contrast of the two cultures was the ecology and its species ... horses, pigs, goats, chicken, and cattle. Turkeys, llamas, alpacas, and guinea pigs are a few of the animals introduced to European lands from the Americas. The greatest impact of ...
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