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Prelude to m’zungu colonisation of Africa

"Veni, Vidi,"

The Colombian Exchange

“ Columbian Exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological
globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Ecological provinces that had been torn apart by continental drift millions of years ago
were suddenly reunited by oceanic shipping, particularly in the wake of Christopher

Columbus's voyages that began in 1492. The consequences profoundly shaped world
history in the ensuing centuries, most obviously in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. “

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Encyclopedia Britannica
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" The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named after
Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human

populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the
Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. It also relates to European colonization and

trade following Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.

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The Atlantic slave trade was the transfer of Africans from primarily West Africa to parts

of the Americas between the 16th and 19th century, a large part of the Columbian
Exchange. About 10 million Africans arrived in the Americas on European boats as

slaves.

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European exploration of tropical areas was aided by the New World discovery of quinine,

the first effective treatment for malaria. Europeans suffered from this disease, but some
indigenous populations had developed at least partial resistance to it. In Africa,

resistance to malaria has been associated with other genetic changes among sub-
Saharan Africans and their descendants, which can cause sickle-cell disease In fact, the
resistance of sub-Saharan Africans to malaria in the southern United States and the

Caribbean contributed greatly to the specific character of the Africa-sourced slavery in
those regions.”

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Wikipedia
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“ Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize during the exchange
increased population density and Trans-Atlantic slave exports in precolonial Africa. We