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noun

The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, technologies, and ideas between the Americas and the Afro-Eurasian hemisphere that began after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.

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The introduction of potatoes and maize to Europe during the Columbian exchange had a profound effect on the continent's agriculture and population growth.

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A devastating consequence of the Columbian exchange was the transmission of Old World diseases, which decimated indigenous populations in the Americas.

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Possible Synonyms

The Great Swap
hemispheric integration
Grand Exchange
New World-Old World interchange
transatlantic transfer

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isolationism

other words

ecological segregation
pre-Columbian stasis
continental isolation
hemispheric separation