Columbian Exchange: Transfer of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
How to apply it: Use the Columbian Exchange to explain demographic collapse in the Americas, agricultural change worldwide, and ecological transformation.
Course: AP World History · Unit: Transoceanic Interconnections
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