Which term refers to the sharing of goods, animals, and diseases between europe and the americas during the age of exploration? a. mercantilism b. columbia exchange c. commercial revolution d. capitalism

B. Columbia Exchange

Explanation:

The arrival of Columbus to America did not only result in the territorial conquest of the new continent. It represented a wide exchange between the various places of the world through the displacement of plants, animals and other living beings, which led to the beginning of great transformations in humanity.  The name of this exchange process is Colombian Exchange. This process of exchange shows that Christopher Columbus's arrival in America has brought about an intense exchange among the peoples of the world, for example by creating a food stability in Europe, sending tomatoes, potatoes and corn to the Old Continent at the same time. time in which decimated a large part of the inhabitants of the Americas with the viruses and bacteria brought from Europe.

answer:   migrations were important in the neolithic period. "two major migrations passing through southeastern europe were confirmed by the means of archaeo-genetic studies."

the first migration was the early neolithic period -- 6,000 before common era (bce) -- when the first farmers, from anatolia -- asia minor -- spread through europe. the second migration occurred during the early bronze age (3,000-2,500 bce) when the so-called "steppe population," from the eurasian steppe, replaced much of northern europe's previous population.

the first farmers of northern and western europe passed through southeastern europe with limited hunter-gatherer genetic admixture, which occurs when two or more previously isolated populations begin interbreeding. however, some groups that remained mixed extensively -- without the male-biased, hunter-gatherer admixture that prevailed later in the north and west, according to latest discoveries. southeastern europe continued to be a nexus between east and west, with intermittent genetic contact with the steppe people up to 2,000 years before the migrations that replaced much of northern europe's population.

"in some places, hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers seem to have mixed very quickly," says iain mathieson, a geneticist at the university of pennsylvania, who was first author of the paper. "but, mostly, the two groups remained isolated, at least for the first few hundred years. these hunter-gatherers had been living there for thousands of years, and it must have been quite a shock to have these new people show up -- with a completely different lifestyle and appearance."