The American Exchange, more commonly known as the Columbian Exchange, profoundly affected the modern world between 1500 and 1800 at both the micro and macro levels. Historians consider the American Exchange to be one of the most significant events in world history because of its profound impact on the culture, ecology, and culture of the modern world. They deploy this phrase to describe the diffuse exchange of flora, fauna, human populations, foods, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Western and Eastern hemispheres subsequent to the “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many novel goods freely flowed Continue reading...