Editorial: Did the Columbian Exchange really impact society today?

The Columbian exchange help set the framework for the huge economy that is now world trade.


The Columbian exchange has greatly affected every country on earth. Through the Columbian exchange the world had had more trade routes built, and more products that have been traded. People of today have been given the opportunity to exchange different products like food, animals, and plants to different countries throughout the world and have been things that some people in other countries have never seen before.


Although mostly positive, the Columbian exchange did not only bring good to the world, it also spread diseases to new countries that caused devastating amounts of people to die and it also started African slave trade.


All in all the Columbian exchange was a good experience for this world because it made the world what it is today.