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Culombian/American Exchange Project Report

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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

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