Compare the Impact of Disease in the European colonisation of Africa, the Americas and Australasia Last document update:   ago

This essay is going to the compare the level of impact disease had in the European colonisation of Africa, Australasia and the Americas. The diseases that will be discussed are smallpox, yellow fever and malaria and the impact each had. Alfred Crosby states that, “when migration takes place, those creatures who have been longest in isolation suffer most for their genetic material has been least tempered by the variety of world diseases,” this is important to note as it was due to the colonis...

Analysis of a product of the Columbian Exchange; potato Last document update:   ago

The Columbian Exchange had an enormous impact on global expansion around the globe particularly on population growth. The local impact of the potato was already prevalent as Rebecca Earle states the potato, “sustained indigenous communities both before and after 1492”, this essay will be concerned with seeing if the potato had the same effect globally . Alfred Crosby stated that the increase in global food exchange initiated by the Columbian Exchange “made possible an increase in the numbe...