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The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The exchange affected mostly every society on earth bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures.
- Colonization ruptured many ecosystems, bringing in new organisms while eliminating others.
- The Europeans brought many diseases with them that decimated Native American populations.
- The popularity of beaver-trimmed hats in Europe, coupled with Native Americans’ desire for European weapons, led to the over hunting of beavers in the Northeast.
