Along with many new crops came with it new animals such as horses, cattle, pigs, and chickens just to name a few. Even though the Columbian exchange killed off populations of indigenous people in the Americas and pacific islands, it actually helped the world population as a whole because there was a lot more food that was able to feed the surging number of people migrating to these new lands. In 1500 the population of the world stood in the range of 425 million and by the 1800s it reached upwards to the 900 million ranges. This exponential growth in population would not have happened if it weren’t for the migration of people to different parts of the world because they brought along with them these many different crops and animals that improved peoples diets and quantity of food available for
Along with many new crops came with it new animals such as horses, cattle, pigs, and chickens just to name a few. Even though the Columbian exchange killed off populations of indigenous people in the Americas and pacific islands, it actually helped the world population as a whole because there was a lot more food that was able to feed the surging number of people migrating to these new lands. In 1500 the population of the world stood in the range of 425 million and by the 1800s it reached upwards to the 900 million ranges. This exponential growth in population would not have happened if it weren’t for the migration of people to different parts of the world because they brought along with them these many different crops and animals that improved peoples diets and quantity of food available for