The devastating side effects of the Old and New World exchange
In short: This video explores how the interaction between the Old and New Worlds triggered a massive flow of people, wealth, and biology, and the catastrophic consequences that followed for non-European populations.
The encounter between these two worlds facilitated an exchange of food, animals, and wealth, but it also introduced lethal diseases such as measles and smallpox to the Americas. These Old World illnesses resulted in the deaths of countless millions of people in the New World. Furthermore, the extraction of resources from the Americas played a role in the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Expansion and Consequences: Crash Course European History #5
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