Age Of Exploration Impact

Christianity also helped steer us into the age of exploration. During the 1500s, Europeans set out traveling the high seas to every part of the world in order to spread Christianity. Many European countries believed that they could convert the non-Christians and Muslims throughout the world. They insisted on missionaries going to Africa and Asia to run Christian schools to teach the people about their religion. However, there are many churches that were established by non-Christians that were independent of the Roman

The Columbian Exchange is one of the greatest exchanges in foods, animals, plants and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492 Christopher Columbus came to America. He saw things he had never seen before so then he decided to take some of them with him to Europe. He started trading routes to initiated an interchange of plants between Eastern and Western, as a result it doubled the resources of the food crop on both sides.

Did you know that the Age of Exploration was one the most important time in history for the world. The Age of Exploration began in the early 1500’s in the nation of Portugal under leadership of Henry the Navigator. The first expedition to circle the globe was led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The causes of the Age of Exploration was to look for new trade routes and spread religion. The effects of the Age of Exploration were slavery and disease.

The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of plants, animals, food, and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus came to America, he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back with him to Europe. Columbus began the trade routes which had never been established between Europe and the Americas so his voyages initiated the interchange of plants between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, which doubled the food crop resources available to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Columbian Exchange was perhaps one of the first environmentally detrimental event in American history. This exchange refers to the trade of food, goods, and disease between the Old World, referring to the eastern hemisphere, and the New World, referring to the Americas. The New World had many things to contribute such as potatoes, maize, tomatoes, and chili peppers, which shaped the culinary of both Europe and Asia (Nun 163). Additionally, Europe introduced domesticated animals such as horses, cattle, cats, and dogs to the Americas.

The Columbian Exchange is the movement of goods or products and people. It was introduced in the time of Columbus voyages. It put plants, animals and cultures together. Europe introduced technology, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts, tobacco and cotton. The Old world then introduced wheat, rice, sugarcane, horses, cattle, pigs and sheep. One downfall of this transaction was that Europeans brought with them germs.

*The Age of Exploration saw searches of wealth, new lands, and conversion of christianity. Europeans ed the first globe trading empires and would they would make trips to the western hemisphere.

The Columbian Exchange helped the advancements of societies internationally with the exchange of food. Food like maize and potatoes coming from America became staple crops throughout Europe. (Document 1) Europeans vastly depended on these foods so much that the Great Famine resulted in the failure of the potato crop in Ireland. Other traded items like sugar, tobacco, coffee and various spices benefitted both sides of the world. The New World gained new types of crops and the rest of the world like Europe and Asia obtained money from trade.

The desire to explore the unknown has been a driving force in human history since the dawn of time. From the earliest documented accounts, ancient civilizations have explored the world around them. Early adventures were motivated by religious beliefs, a desire for conquest, the need for trade, and an unsatisfying hunger for gold. The great Age of Exploration, beginning in the late 1400s, was an important era in the discovery and development of lands yet unknown to the Europeans. During this period, Europe sought new sea routes to Asia in pursuit of economic gain, increased glory, and opportunities to spread Christianity. Although these were motivations for explorers, the impact from the discoveries resulted in significant changes and

The Columbian exchange was passed through the old, new worlds, and Africa (Columbian Exchange). The geography of these three places and their downfalls and rises all work together to import and export goods and species (Columbian Exchange). They exported goods, slaves, and animals (Columbian Exchange). Europeans all together were the best at trading for goods and exporting goods to making themselves have such an early advantage (Columbian Exchange). The Columbian exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the new world and old world following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492, by the old world meaning the eastern hemisphere (Columbian Exchange). The discoveries of new supplies and metals is the best known, the old world also gained staple crops, sugar and coffee (Columbian Exchange). The exchange of disease occurred such as smallpox, measles, and typhus. Some cuisines of countries were altered by the Columbian exchange; it introduced a wide range of new calorically rich staple crops to the old world –namely potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, and cassavas. The Europeans adapted tobacco. Sugar cane was extremely important for the European masses (Columbian Exchange). The potato provided a large supply of calories and nutrients, it had a positive growth on the population by 12%, and it effected urbanization by 47% as well (Columbian Exchange). Slaves were also imported into the Americas because of the spread of old world diseases to native Americans, the cultivation of highly priced old world crops such as sugar and coffee(Columbian Exchange). Over all, the Columbian exchange helped form Europe and guided it to conquer the Americas (Columbian Exchange). Furthermore, in the tables written by Jared Diamond and

The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of food and crops, disease, ideas and people that involved Africa, the Americans and Europe. Explorers had found a new world which is commonly known as North America today. People wanted to travel to the New World to start fresh and be given freedom and rights that they did not receive in their present countries. It also helped discover new foods and revolutionary materials. The Columbian Exchange transformed the standards of living and had positive and negative effects on both the natives and the explorers.

It took a lot of labor to work these plantations. It was too expensive to ship in free men or indentured servants. Efforts made to force Native Americans into slavery, but the results were poor. Besides being vulnerable to disease, the natives were not familiar with the type of work demanded and had a tendency to escape and disappear into the surrounding terrain, and simply did not handle the abuse well.

The “Columbian Exchange” had a massive impact on both the Americas and Europe. The Americas was mainly used as a place to cultivate foods that are native to Europe. Therefore, new foods were mostly presented to the American. Europeans first brought over grains (wheat, barley, oats ad rye) and livestock. Cows, sheep, and goats were used for meat.

The Age of Discovery is the European historical period from around the 15th century to the end of the 18th century, during which extensive overseas exploration came to be an important factor in the expansion of European culture. It was the Portuguese discovery of the Atlantic Archipelago of the Azores, the discovery of a once unknown ocean route to the East in 1498, and the ultimate discovery of the western coast of Africa, and the trans-Atlantic discovery of the Americas on behalf of Spanish Crown in 1492 that led to the numerous global expeditions that would change history. These first small expeditions led to several more naval expeditions in Asia, Africa, Australia, and all the way to the Americas. These trips continued into the late 19th

     The Age of Exploration was a time of struggle and wealth for many European countries. The pursuit of a trade route to the Far East led many countries across the ocean, looking for the great spice cities that were rumored by Marco Polo. These countries knew that whoever found the shortest or best route would become rich, very quickly. Explorers from many European countries embarked on journeys that not even they had any clue where they were going. This search for the Far East led to many discoveries that would otherwise have never been found.