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Answer:
Correct answer is a. smuggling
Explanation:
A is correct answer because he was arrested by Mexican authorities in 1835 while he was engaged in mercantile business. He was arrested because he removed his merchandise although the authorities prohibited him to do so.
B and C are not correct as he was never accused of these crimes, while D is not correct because General Cos died by natural cause.
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.