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What does Columbian Exchange mean?

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  1. (historical) The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.
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European overseas expansion led to the contact between the Old and New Worlds producing the Columbian Exchange, named after Columbus.
To ecologists, the Columbian Exchange is arguably the most important event since the death of the dinosaurs.
The population decline was primarily the result of communicable diseases, particularly smallpox, introduced during the Columbian Exchange.
The Columbian Exchange is less lopsided than it used to be, he pointed out.
The Columbian Exchange has shaped everything about the modern world.
Tobacco was one of the luxury goods which was spread as a direct result of the Columbian Exchange.

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