The following was TRUE of the Columbian Exchange EXCEPT
A) there were gains and losses for the Europeans and for peoples of the Americas.
B) the transmission of disease-bearing microbes devastated native populations in the Americas.
C) new populations began to emerge after 1492 when the peoples who met in the Americas produced offspring that carried the biological traits and the cultures of their ancestors from different parts of the world.
D) the exchange of plants in the Columbian Exchange went mostly from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia rather than vice versa.
Answer: D
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