Columbian+Exchange


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 * ==//__Millions of years ago, the Americas drifted away from Eurasia and Africa. Millions of years later travelers once again discovered the new world. But these travelers brought with them new illnesses like smallpox. __//==
 * ==//__Millions of years ago, the Americas drifted away from Eurasia and Africa. Millions of years later travelers once again discovered the new world. But these travelers brought with them new illnesses like smallpox. __//==
 * ==//__Millions of years ago, the Americas drifted away from Eurasia and Africa. Millions of years later travelers once again discovered the new world. But these travelers brought with them new illnesses like smallpox. __//==

==//__As might be expected, the Europeans who settled on the east coast of the United States grew crops like wheat and apples, which they'd brought with them. The weeds, which the colonists did not grow, for they preferred to uproot, also fared well in the New World. __//==

==**//__The missionaries and the traders who ventured into the Americans told the same appalling story about smallpox and the indigenes. In 1738 alone the epidemic killed of 50% the Cherokee; in 1759 almost half the Catawbas; in the first years of the next century two-thirds of the Omahas and perhaps half the entire population between the Missouri River and New Mexico; in 1837-38 nearly every last one of the Mandans and perhaps half the people of the high plains. __//**==

|| *Food -Potatoes -Parsnips -Turnips -Carrots ||