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In 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles C. Mann examines the extensive effects of the Columbian Exchange initiated by Columbus’s voyages, detailing how the amalgamation of goods, microorganisms, plants, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds resulted in significant ecological, humanitarian, and economic changes, creating a unified global era known as the Homogenocene. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade.