Columbian Exchange Diseases Old World. Tthe effects of the columbian exchange were not isolated to the parts of the he effects of the columbian exchange were not isolated to the parts of the wworld most directly participating in the exchange: Two worlds that had grown apart with very different organisms started to become homogeneous (crosby, 1972).
The columbian exchange influenced technological advances in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Disease was a major part of the columbian exchange for a number of reasons. While sugar, wheat, pigs, horses, and cows came from the old world.
These diseases effected many of the native people of the new world because they were not immune to these foreign diseases.
The columbian exchange started when christopher columbus made his first voyage into the americas in 1492. The columbian exchange new world old world 4. Amerindian crops that have crossed oceans—for example, maize to china and the white potato to ireland—have been stimulants to population growth in the old world. The consequences profoundly shaped world history in the ensuing centuries, most obviously in the americas, europe, and africa.