1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created

Charles C Mann, the author of 1493 provides an extensive analysis of the age of exploration through a series of best-selling books. He illustrated both pre-columbian and post Columbian era and established the significance of globalization across the world through the books 1491 and 1493.The book was first published on 2011 as a continuation of 1491 that recorded America before the arrival of Columbus.Charles C Mann provided an astonishing interpretation of columbian exchange through examining several aspects of global trade.He integrated social economical and cultural components of globalization to inform readers on how it shaped the modern world.The author’s main purpose was to engage readers in critical thinking and evaluate both advantages and disadvantages of globalization that united the world.Globalization blended many cultures and tradition and increased the survival of humankind.Moreover, the Columbian exchange ranked Europe among the greatest powers of the world; thus, Charles C Mann also discussed significant European pressures that lead to the everlasting transformation of the world.

The Columbian Exchange has been called the “greatest human intervention in nature since the invention of agriculture” (Grennes 2007). The exchange of diseases, plants, and animals lead to a global cultural and economic shift throughout the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus' 'discovery' of the Americas in 1492. The Eastern Hemisphere saw an influx of raw materials, new staple crops, and the income from and production of growing crops that were too resource intensive for Europe and Asia. The Western Hemisphere saw large scale population shifts, massive devastation accompanying colonization, and a significant change in the ecosystem with the introduction of new, sometimes invasive, plants and animals. This 'exchange' had one

The Columbian Exchange was the beginning of the expansion of trade between the New World and Europe. The Columbian Exchange started the flow of goods between continents that had not shared the same borders since Pangaea. McNeill stated “Columbus’ voyage, along with the many voyages that followed, disrupted much of the biological segregation brought about by continental drift. (McNeil, 1).” Journalist Charles Mann states in his research for his book, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, on the Columbian Exchange that “No other person, changed the face of the Earth as radically as Columbus did. Columbus ' crossing of the Atlantic, Mann says, marked the start of a new age, not only for the Americas but also

After Columbus made his journey to the New World in 1492, the Europeans brought a different culture to the people of the New World and took many new ideas back to the Old one, this was the time period known as the Columbian Exchange. Most of what the Europeans took from the Exchange was good, but some of what they brought was devastating to the people in the New World. Although, this time period was very brutal for the Native Americans, the Columbian Exchange resulted in the transmitting of new technologies, an increase in remedies and cures for diseases, and a growth in resources such as food that helped to improve life.

After many centuries, a lot of controversy still surrounds Christopher Columbus. He remains to be a strange figure in history regarded as a famous explorer and a great mariner who made many discoveries in his days. Other people still regard him as a visionary and a national hero while others chose to remember him as a brutal and greedy person who used the rest of the humanity for his own selfish gains. Despite the fact that there have been protests in his being honored through a holiday referred to as the Columbus Day, he still deserves recognition and acknowledgement as a historical figure performed a great role in the making of the modern world.

The Columbian Exchange was a major milestone in the diffusion of the New and Old World. In 1492, Columbus arrived in the Bahamas(2), where he first came in contact with Native Americans. There, both exchanged their cultures such as crops, animals, metals, and germs, hence the name, Colombian Exchange. This has brought about both positive and negative effects. While some negative impacts are exemplified by the near-genocide of Amerindians, the demerits are outweighed by the benefits of this historical exchange, including the international diversity of ethnicity, and increased global population.

When you are sitting in a fancy restaurant in Texas, tasting a delicious steak with a nice cup of coffee, do you know that before 1492, American people don’t even know what is beef and coffee. Nowadays, people’s diet is abundant. People in every part of the world can taste the food originated in other side of the world. This is due to one of the most significant ecological events in human history called the Columbian Exchange. According to Nunn Nathan and Qian Nancy, “the Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492” (Nathan and Nancy, 2010). It was so spectacular that has left both positive and negative impacts in each side of the world.

In the article Hello Columbus: America was No Paradise in 1492, by Robert Royal, Royal argued that Native Americans, along with Columbus, are portrayed wrongly in society today, from schools to media.

In 1492 the explorer Columbus set out on his first voyage for Spain in search of a direct water route across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to Asia. Instead though, he found the Americas. Once in the New World Columbus ran into a native people and decided to name them Indians. This accidental finding of the Americas ignited the first contact ever between the Western and Eastern hemisphere. The result of this was The Columbian Exchange in which there was a large trade of animals, plants, technology, culture, slaves, diseases, and even new religions. This exchange effected the way Europeans, Americans, Asians, and Africans lived their daily lives. The Columbian exchange was by far one of the most paramount events in the history of world technology, agriculture, culture, and ecology. In this research paper the following will be answered:

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In 1492, when the first of many Europeans arrived to the Americas, a new era had begun. The great leaders and trades between the old and new worlds have changed humanity for the better and worse. To understand how we should view the Columbian Exchange, it must be understood by its impact on the history of trade, change in civilization, and diseases.

The Columbian Exchange was a major milestone in the diffusion of the New and Old World. Ever since Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, his interactions with the Native Americans has changed the development of the new world. During his first trip to the Bahamas, he exchanged their cultures such as crops, animals, and diseases. The Columbian Exchange has resulted in many positive and negative effects between the New World and Europe.

The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of items from the Old World, Europe and Africa, to the New World, North and South America. Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus discovered this new world in 1492. He found the new world while he was searching for a new trade route to Asia. Despite the title of “Exchange”, this was not an exclusively positive transfer between Europe and the New World. This exchange plants, animals, technology, and diseases, permanently altered both worlds positively and negatively. While few items did prove beneficial, others had significant and devastating effects, especially in the New World. While agricultural advancements positively affected the Old World, diseases left disastrous effects on the New World.

The Columbian Exchange, a Trade or a Genocide? “Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable and unethical”-Amartya Sen, an Indian economist and philosopher. In 1492, Columbus set sail for India, only to find America. He started The Columbian Exchange which refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds (Europe and America). Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases, and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.

In the book 1491 “New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus” by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. Consists of a groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought. The book itself is a very readable account of the history of the American people before the lands were 'discovered' by Europeans in 1492 and gives a lot to think about as you are reading it. In the book Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came up with new unheard set of conclusions never heard before. The book does a great job explaining everything with great details but it also raises many questions.