The Columbian Exchange brought both benefits and disadvantages when Europeans colonized the Americas. It introduced new technologies like guns and plows from Europe and beneficial plants like corn, potatoes, and tomatoes to the Americas. However, it also introduced European diseases like smallpox and whooping cough that devastated the native populations and allowed Europeans to overpower them. The exchange also changed the environment and cultures by spreading European languages, religions, and forms of government to the Americas.

1. The Columbian Exchange
By: Vaughan Benoit
Thesis Statement: The Columbian Exchange affected science,
technology, and environment by bringing the European lifestyle to a
totally foreign nation in ways both beneficial and non-beneficial.

2. Technology
-metal
*guns
*plows
-tools
*axes
*different farming devices

3. Science: benefits
-plants
*corn
*potatoes
*tomatoes
-animals
*dogs
*cows

4. Science: disadvantage
-germs
*whooping cough
*smallpox
-effect to natives
*killed off 50-90% population
*lead to the defeat of natives

5. Environment
-Germs
*killed of natives population
*lead to the overpowering of European
-Change of culture
*language (English and Spanish)
*religion (Christianity)
*different ways of government
*education system

6. Bibliography
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4
• http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19
• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/columbian-exchange-overview