- Global exchange between the New and Old Worlds.- Plants, food, animals, and other resources exchanged.- European colonization in the Americas allowed for diseases fromEurope to spread in the Americas, including smallpox, influenza, and measles.- Peoples of Mexico (Mexica) were greatly affected as well; over 90 percent of the population died within a century of the Spanish arrival.- Exchange of new food products led to a population increase across the globe; maize and potatoes arrived in Europe, Africa, and Asia; goats, chickens, pigs, and wheat arrived in the Americas.- As food from the Americas became staple crops in places in Europe, Asia, and Africa, plantations in the Americas began to grow cash crops utilizing forced labor.- Populations were forced to migrate, as was the case with many enslaved Africans brought to the Americas. Many Europeans chose to migrate to the New World to seek economic opportunities.

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