The standards are: 1  Research and evidence based. 2  Clear, understandable, and consistent. 3  Aligned with college and career expectations. 4  Based on rigorous content and the application of knowledge through higher-order thinking skills. 5  Built upon the strengths and lessons of current state standards.
Alfred coined the term Columbian exchange in 1972. The Columbian exchange started to connect the New and Old Worlds with the transmission of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases. Two worlds that had grown apart with very different organisms started to become homogeneous (Crosby, 1972).
Long Term Effects and Synthesis Long Term Effects and Synthesis One long term effect of the Columbian Exchange was the creation of the Triangular Trade, which brought new crops to Europe and started the Middle Passage, which would ship Africans across the the Atlantic to America as the Native Americans died out due to influenza, small pox, and shingles.