Columbus sailed the ocean blue …
90% of the “New Continents” population wiped out by foreign diseases. Whole nations, or the “savage people”, as the “superior, civilized, peaceful” Spaniards liked to see it, gone forever, sometimes without a trace, sometimes with just empty ruins repossessed by “Mother Nature” to witness the first phase of the Columbian Exchange.
The “French disease” - harmless to the American Indians - causing pain and suffering and killing off the people of Europe. The unintended consequences of sudden and massive interference in one natural ecosystem by another …
We know that Columbus “gave” America the horse, the iron and the wheel. Europe in return got potatoes, corn and ... The Price Revolution.
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