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Which statement provide the best explanation of the term Columbian Exchange?

Families with long lost relatives are reunited after being separated for a generation or more.

People on continents with very different climates, cultures and lifestyles suddenly meet and exchange crops, ideas, and diseases.

People who are descended from Christopher Columbus work together to understand and control worldwide diseases.

Civilizations that had been at peace before suddenly start fighting over the ownership of land they used to share.

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"People on continents with very different climates, cultures and lifestyles suddenly meet and exchange crops, ideas, and diseases."

This best captures the Columbian Exchange — the widespread transfer of plants, animals, peoples, technologies, and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after Columbus's voyages.