What was the impact of new plants and animals on the global economy and environment?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Impact on global economy
1. increased the economic exchange on a global scale
a. demand for some goods supported increased production
b. created a market for goods not previously demanded
2. Coffee was one of the most commercially successful products of the
eighteenth century
a. French planted it in the island of Bourbon in the Indian Ocean
and in Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean
b. Portuguese in Brazil
c. sugar and coffee trades grew together
3. increased ocean-borne exchange of foodstuffs
a. amount of trade increased
4. opportunity of new food products increased desire for Europeans to trade
a. ample fresh food helped to make the South Seas seem "certainly
the paradise of the world"
5. successful transfer of foodstuffs helped create new markets
a. most successful when food resembled native diets