The project started out slow and learning about what the New World and Old World are. We evaluated what cultures made up the New World and the Old, as well as the animals and plants. I then procceeded in expanding my knowledge in the Columbina/American Exhnage and what the Old and New World was like before the exchange. As my knwledge grew around the subject, I soon had to incorpoarte what I had learned into a project. The project revolved around the major and key events during the Culombian/American Exchange. I did find myself getting confused at times. It was hard to follow which colonizations were being built at what times and what cultures were being destroyed. This was easily fixed, when I starte doing research for the project and focused …show more content…
Christopher Columbus didn’t even mean to find the New World, but instead wanted to find India. The accident of him finding the New World led to a not - so - peaceful exchange. It only took a few other explorores to follow in Christopher Columbus’s steps and soon entire civilizations and cultures were destroyed. The Incas, the Taino, and the Aztecs were all effected and impacted by the exchange. I also found it interesting of how different the Old and New World were to each other. The New World had learned to genetically modify food by turning teosinte to corn. They were also healthier, due to the lack of meat and animas. The Old World was advanced in religion and in music. They also had more dangerous weapons and were more immune to disease.
Something I learned during this project was how important and crucial the Columbian/American Exchange is and how it shaped the world we live in today. Before this project, I had barely heard of the Columbian/American Exchange and I thought that the only thing that Christopher Columbus did was discover the New World. While it is true that Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, there was a lot more that happend
The Columbian Exchange, derived from the voyages of Columbus to the Americas, was a chapter in history that connected the Old World to the New World by exchanging crops, culture, and technology. The Columbian Exchange in the Western Hemisphere resulted in extensive demographic, social, economic, and environmental changes. The arrival of Europeans to Native American land produced an intense mixture of culture and population fluctuation. Not only did this exchange affect the social aspect between the two nations, it changed the way people engaged in trade and proprietary interests, which would lead to a massive destruction and transformation of the environment.
By integrating so many Old World ideas, it became harder and harder to identify their true culture. Even today, one could go to an Indian reservation and see only a few people who carry as much original native traditions as possible, but none of them can because some of the new ideas were so hidden, like horses, that it's hard for even a person who is majority Native American to dissect his or her culture to its purest form. Other countries still have bright culture that they hold on to and can be recognized by. The Old World was affected negatively by the New World, but not in such a harsh way. They came back with less than half the diseases that they brought. Many people were killed by the sicknesses like yellow fever, but not in any kind of comparison to the Native Americans, and the diseases they brought were nothing to the Black Plague that so many had heard about so it didn't affect them as much as natives. Tobacco, although it may seem small, was an unnoticed problem for Europeans. It soon became a necessity. Both chewing and smoking affected their heath and is even a problem today. The negative effects on the Old World are significantly less severe than on the New World. The Old World had a huge advantage over the Native Americans because they could see a native's actual life and almost everything about them while the New World didn't originally have that benefit. Because of this, the Europeans got many agriculture ideas and foods from
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.
The transition from the Old World to the New World, commonly classified as the Columbian Exchange, was the basis of European expansionism and imperialism. In reference to previous and future endeavors in history involving expansionism and imperialism, were notoriously implemented in inhumane ways. Evidently, the Columbian Exchange, named after the founder of the New World, Christopher Columbus, was the introduction of numerous things such as: technologies, plants, animals, diseases, and cultures. As the Columbian Exchange is a significant event is history, despite the demise of numerous Native American tribes and Europeans, the Columbian Exchange is the beginning of modernization in terms of socio-economics in the Western hemisphere.
The Colombian Exchange affected the New World by blending goods from the Old World with New World. It brought new resources, such as plants and animals to both the New and Old Worlds. However it also started the spread of diseases.
Throughout the first section Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms, I learned more about the history of the United States and Latin America than I ever have in a history lesson. Example being that I had no idea who Juan Ponce de León was let alone that he was the first European to embark on U.S ground then I learned even more by finding out that he was in fact the first Governor of Puerto Rico. Another aspect was the spread of Catholicism was beginning
The Columbian Exchange introduced many things into the New and Old World that changed their culture completely. Ireland is known for potatoes, but potatoes didn’t come from Ireland they came from the New World. Also, horses are one of the symbols of Native Americans, though horses were one of the domesticated animals brought to the New World. The New World eventually benefited from the European exploration to the New World with the introduction of crops, livestock, and European technology.
After Columbus' 'discovery' of America in 1492, an began exchange between the 'Old World', the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and the 'New World', the continents of what today is North America and South America. Historian Alfred Crosby called this exchange the 'Columbian Exchange'. The spread of new foods and animals benefited both the Old and New worlds, although the exchange of disease devastated the New World. Historians estimate that as many as 100 million people died as a result of the spread of diseases such as Small Pox and Influenza. This exchange changed world history and created the world that we live in today.
The Columbian Exchange is the interconnection between two different Earth hemispheres. The New World, Earth’s western hemisphere, consists of the Americas. The Old World, Earth’s eastern hemisphere, consists of Africa, Europe, and Asia. These two worlds had two very different ecosystems, disease pools, and cultural differences. After the discovery of one another the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human population, technology, and ideas were shared. Mortality from diseases struck populations and killed off large numbers of societies. Positive trade and transfer of goods helped each world to become more advanced. The Columbian Exchange impacted the New and Old World through social, cultural, and economical change.
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.
Before 1450, there were three distinct sections of the world. Europe, Africa, and America. They all had smaller communities of people with distinct languages, crafts, diets, and traditions. However, things were about to change. All it took to dramatically alter the lives of every human on earth was one man and three ships set to sail for India. These ships intended to find a better route to trade, but got a bit more than they had bargained for. The discovery of spices, metals, and fabrics as well as a desire to find superior trade routes to acquire these goods lead to the discovery of the New World, which had a dramatic mixed impact on both the Old and New Worlds.
The impact on the health of the people from the Old and New Worlds had their similarities and their differences. This impact on the health of the people was based on the event known as the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange occurred in 1492 when Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to find a new route to Asia. The event of the Columbian Exchange greatly changed the health of the peoples of the Old World and the New World.
The New World was surrounded in mystery. The hope of prosperity, a new start, or a chance to solidify a legacy drove thousands to shed the “Old World” they knew. This action of embarking beyond the familiar boundaries and happening upon a land untouched by the rest of the known word was pure chance. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the shores of Guanahauni and the world would never be the same. The effects of the Columbian Exchange are still evident in today’s geographic landscape.
The Columbian Exchange was the introduction of the New Age of Exploration. Therefore, it was a turning point in history because it reshape the way people lived across the world. There were many positive and negative aspects over the Exchange between the Old and New World. The introduction of crops, animals, and diseases played a big factor in the European Conquest over Native American that led to many changes in society. The Europeans headed west in search of new land for them to settle in and conquest. When the Europeans first introduced the domesticated animals to the New World, the Native Americans were especially surprised on the exportation of cattle, horses, and pigs were welcome to a new environment. Consequently, it was not easy for
Students will understand that Lewis was asked by President Jefferson to explore the area. Lewis invited Clark to go with him. On their journey they were to look for new animals, new plants, different types of rocks, and the weather of the different regions. Students will understand how Lewis and Clark interacted with Native American Tribes that were unknown before the exploration. The students will also understand Sacagawea's role in the exploration.