the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage
The people of the Americas had never been exposed to such infectious diseases as measles and smallpox. Without any resistance to those diseases, they were helpless and died in huge numbers. This is the most important impact of the exchange because of the fact that it was so devastating to the native population.
One reason why Germany did not become a strong unified state during the Middle Ages was because "it was ruled by foreign rather than native <span>princes," since there was a great deal of outside influence during this time. </span>
I think it may have had something to do with Brit and France helping them win the war. Thus it made them as a fall back or cushion for the ottoman empire because they felt that they where able to rely on them now.
