Columbus arrives with deadly diseases

Q#4 Changes and Conflicts from diverse world collisions?After the 1492 collision of Europe, Africa and the Americas, various changes and conflicts occurred, some of which proved necessary and positive, while others turned deadly. As further research of the New World was unveiled it was clear that much of the New World was made up of diverse plantation from the one found in the Old World. Tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes where some of the crops found in the New World that fed both Europeans and Indians. Three fifths of the crops today originated from the America's. The Europeans in exchange to the Indians for the food gifts, presented them with Old World crops and animals.Columbus therefore returned to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1493 with seventeen ships that unloaded twelve hundred men in an almost like Noah's Ark of cattle, swine, and horses. The horses where rapid in expansion they reached North America through Mexico and in 2 centuries reached up to Canada. Various North American tribes adopted the horse giving there culture a better chance at hunting down buffaloes. Columbus also brought sugar into the New World creating a sugar revolution, therefore causing Africans to immigrate in order to work the sugar fields. But along with this joyful change unbeknownst to the Spaniards they had also brought various diseases, such as germs that caused smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria. Eventually these diseases destroyed the majority of life in the New World, reducing the population from 1 million to only 200. The New World was unprepared as they had gone years without any real epidemic. Although not intended by the Spaniards the disease became one of the worst, unparalleled to any in history, igniting vengeful slaves as they realized the Spaniards where responsible. The Indian slaves where not able to fully Infect their owners with the previously stated diseases, however they where successful with infecting and introducing to Europe for the first time the sexually and deadly transmitted disease called syphilis, what a way to strike back.