Who Had The Advantage In The Columbian Exchange

Did the old world or the new world have the advantage in the columbian exchange.

In the Columbian exchange it is obvious that the old world European countries had an advantage whilst trading.Although if that was unfair is disputable because although the Indians might have traded something of much more value in England like gold or spice and got in return things of much less value like glass beads.The Indians were not held against their will in the trade they willingly gave up their items.Some could even speculate their loss of valuables was there fault because of their ignorance.Then again you have to way in the fact that not only were the native Americans getting a bad deal they were also being infected with diseases their immune system had never seen before and were completely fatal.This is due to the domesticated animals that the Europeans and which were new to the Native Americans.

So the Native Americans were exposed to the diseases of the Europeans through livestock.Once again though the Europeans showed the Native Americans steel and rifle not to mention the huge variety of working animals mainly the horse which greatly improved the life of all Native Americans.They also were unskilled in these arts though and when they started to rely on them they were wiped out by the Europeans who were more trained to operate the machinery.Because of the fact that this exchange led to the entire abolishment of the old Native American ways I think it is safe to say that it wasn’t fair to the Native Americans.But if we were just talking about if trading two things that aren’t of equal value but are in one mans mind I’m torn to say whether or not that is fair and it really isn’t my place to speculate.

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