Keeping this in consideration, what was brought from Europe to the Americas?
The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples' lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle. They also carried diseases against which the Indian peoples had no defenses.
Similarly, what products went to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange? Christopher Columbus introduced horses, sugar plants, and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic is known as the Columbian Exchange.
In respect to this, what happened in Europe as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
positive-European/African foods introduced and American food to Europe/Africa. negative-Native Americans and Africans were forced to work on plantations. Diseases were also exchanged!
What disease did European settlers bring to America?
Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity (Denevan, 1976).
