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The Columbian Exchange: How 1492 Changed Every Meal You've Ever Had | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of the Columbian Exchange — the greatest biological and cultural transfer in human history. After 1492, the plants, animals, diseases, and people of the Old and New Worlds began mixing for the first time, with consequences that are still felt in every meal eaten today.
Covered: What Columbus's voyages set in motion, the transfer of crops from the Americas (potatoes, tomatoes, maize, cacao, tobacco), the introduction of European animals to the Americas (horses, cattle, pigs), the devastating disease exchange and the death of up to 90% of Native American…
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