The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.
Generally speaking, all of the following are benefits of trade except "<span>lower taxes," since taxes are set by domestic governments, and are not taken into consideration during trade unless they are in the form of a tariff. </span>
