Question

Describe the demographic (population) changes that occur as a result of the arrival of Columbus.

Answer 1

Answer: The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where by 1600 Native American populations on most islands had plummeted by more than 99 percent. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. The disease component of the Columbian Exchange was decidedly one-sided.

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Answer 2

Answer: A lot of people died of diseases but in the long run the world hum population increased

Explanation: 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.