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Daniel Rodriguez
Professor Regalado
AMH 2041
28 June 2015
The Effects on the Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was an extensive transportation of farm animals, plants, culture,
people, and ideas between North America and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th
centuries. What derived during that period was a massive change between both hemispheres which
brought good and bad things. After Columbus reached the New World in 1492, the Pilgrims fled their
home land to seek for “freedom” to worship as Christians; where in Europe it was forbidden to do so,
but they were ready to sacrifice everything they had there to travel to a new territory (America) in new
