Have you heard about the Columbian Exchange? Today I will tell you the positive and negative effects of the Columbian Exchange. The positive effects were that they got plants, animals, and ideas. During the exchange, people traded plants and animals to get other things. Some people got ideas to try out new things when they got unusual stuff from the exchange or they seen someone else exchanging for it. 


The negative effects were diseases. When people exchanged things, you never know how many people touched it or even where its been. Therefore, people got diseses from that and got diseases from many other things too. 



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