How Did The Finding Of The Americas Impacted Europe?

The long-term effects of the Columbian exchange included the swap of food, crops, and animals between the New World and Old World, and the start of the transoceanic trade. In order to produce a profit, Portuguese explorers were the first to established sugar cane plantations in Brazil. They then sold this crop to the Old World where it was a popular commodity because it provided Europeans with a sweetener for foods. In addition, European produce was brought to the New World, including “…wheat, vines, horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens… Where they sharply increased supplies of food and animal energy.” This fusion of crops between the Old and New World became fundamental in enhancing the diets and food of both populations.

Impacts of European expansion reached across the world and affected more than the expanding European powers and their colonies in the new world. Life in the world changed when these two cultures that were directly opposite of one another collided. Europe was filled with greed for resources and wealth, the Indigenous people living on these resources were living a simple sustainable life with next to no government or regulation. Once the new world was set up Europeans who ran these new territories called colonists today developed their own society and way of living and would end up revolting against the homeland.

Before Columbus’ entrance into the Americas, Europeans were unnecessarily losing profit from trading goods imported from Asia, and islands abundant in spices like Indonesia, China, and India, due to labor intensity and distance. With access to many sea routes, such as Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, creaky and unstable ships made safe shipment unguaranteed. Land routes, often utilized by caravans, stretched into Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, but didn’t asset Europe due to Muslim middlemen gaining profit along the routes. A historian analyzed the situation saying, “to obtain a more regular and predictable flow of wealth, the European rivals, needed their own colonies, where they might harvest precious minerals and tropical and semitropical crops..” (Taylor 66). Europeans thirsted for a profitable trade source, and the Americas were their solution. America’s crops facilitated European population growth, while America’s gold and silver mines stimulated wealth. This “route” became a more accessible and profitable source of commerce for Europeans. Africa was soon brought into this pattern, providing access to cheap slave labor. The three continents formed an interdependent trade system. Africa contributed slaves, Europe supplied advanced technology,

During the middle ages European entrepreneurs like the Venetians, imported sugar from parts of the Levant such as Alexandria. However, such sugar producing areas were in Islamic hands or were threatened by Islamic expansion and this near monopoly drove the prices upwards. Even in the face of such high prices and limited supply the sweet phenomenon caught on very quickly. Initially little more than an exotic good consumed in noble circles, the novelty soon caught on across all of society, and seeing the ample demand and inherent profits in the trade of sugar European merchants began, on a large scale, to trade in the stuff finding that they could grow rich merely on the profits of its export and import. Nonetheless, aware of the advantages of controlling sources of production as well as transport, many eventually began looking for land on which to grow their own cane. They began doing this in Iberia and elsewhere but because of the large tracts of land and the large labour force required for the production of sugar and the lack of these requisites in Iberia, experiments were undertaken to grow sugar overseas. During the thirteenth century, enterprising Portuguese and Spanish merchants sought to enhance their share of the lucrative sugar market by producing cane on plantations they established in conquered Mediterranean islands. In the late 1300's and 1400's the Portuguese colonised Madeira and the Azores for the same purpose as the Spanish absorbed the

Europe conquered Africa and the Americas in many ways. To start off, Christopher Columbus from Europe sailed west to find a new route to the Indies but instead came across what he thought was the “New World”. This “New World” however was only new to the Europeans. The Europeans were looking for territory for the expansion of their own territories in hopes of finding treasurable things, or precious metals (such as gold), also to spread their religion and for Glory.

Being that the figure Christopher Columbus was trying in to find a route to the Asian mainland. He is seen as a great and heroic explorer who discovered the “New World”.Others saw him as the cause of invasion and destruction. The book concludes, “Other explorers soon realized that he had discovered a new frontier altogether” (410). Christopher Columbus was a great influence for others to find the New World. With the factor of trading goods, it was important due to Colombus trading routes. The most important factor was being how the Portuguese was going to take over the Muslims possessions and create a solution that benefits them and gives them more

The Americas have always been a global influence and will continue to do so. However, on the rise, the Americas were never as strong as they were to be presently. Ranging from the 1750’s up to present day, the shifting of influential ideologies, the copious amounts of political change, external and internal migration, wars, urbanization, industrialization, and militarization all play a part in the development of the Americas we know today. Being a global superpower did not come to us overnight, but rather through centuries of hard work and perseverance, that our country became one of the greatest and most influential.

The discovery of the Americas was without a doubt a huge impact on world civilization. Some of these impacts were beneficial and some were disruptive, but it still helped move world civilization. Trade, slavery, religion, and New World and Old World issues were some of the impacts. The impacts started to actually took effect around the Thirty Years’ War and by 1492 the influences of the New World were irrevocably present in history. Every single one of them led to us in our modern day world.

“Ancestors” immigrated to the Americas while searching for game. After glaciers melted and sea levels rose, immigrants were stuck on the Americas. Corn was essential for Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America. Scandinavians indirectly discovered the Americas, quickly abandoned it. Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southernmost tip of Africa in 148, 10 years later Vasco da Gama finally reached India. Slavery was a crucial industry. Printing presses, introduced around 1450, facilitated the spread of scientific. Columbus accidentally discovered the Americas while looking for the fabled “Inndies”, so he called them Indians. Americas supplied Europeans with agricultural needs, such as potato, maize. Europeans unleashed cattle, swine, and horses. Horses soon were a part of Native American tribes and used for hunting. Columbus also introduced sugar causing the “Sugar Revolution” which thrived in the warm climate of the Caribbean. Consequently, Columbus also brought diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox. Years of isolation ridded the Native Americans of antibodies, within 50 years of the Spanish arrival the Taino natives dwindled from about 1 million to 200. As revenge the New World infected the Spanish with syphilis. Spain secured Columbus’s findings with the Treaty of Tordesillas and Portugal received compensating territory in Africa and Asia, as well as title lands that would soon become Brazil. Vasco Nunez Balboa discovered Pacific Ocean in 1513.

In my opinion, if the Spanish had colonized North America and the English had colonized South America, it might be different about today’s international economic. As I know, the real situation was opposite; therefore, the situation is that North America has developing better than South America. The reason why the situation has vastly different is because Spain and England colonized in various methods. For Spain, they colonized by an invasive way. They treated their colonies very cruel which means that they merely want to plunder colonies’ resources, such as natural resources. Furthermore, Spain was not focused on policies in their colonies; thus, their colonies have further impacts on dependent revolution. Spain’s colonies’ have lower developments

The people of both Europe and the Americas has become merged with each others in the Americas. Although the cultures have mixed, neither has completely gone away. There are still Native Customs as well as Spanish Customs in the Americans. Many people in the Southern Americas speak spanish but still use Southern American Customs and/or religion.

European colonialism changed the economy in Brazil drastically. The country went basically from hunters and gatherers to a major source of goods for exports do largely to the Portuguese. Portugal explored Brazil because of the European commercial expansion of the fifteen and sixteenth centuries. Portugal began in the fifteenth century to search for other routes to the sources of goods valued in European markets. At first the Portuguese did not find mineral riches in their American colony, but did not lose hope. The Portuguese had to defend the Brazil from European intruders, they did this by establishing a pioneer colonial enterprise. They began to produce sugar, and then in 1531 cattle began to arrive in Brazil, and developed quickly as an industry. The cattle developed to the needs of the sugar industry for transportation and food for the workers. (5)

This new global system, with the conquest of the Americas at its core, gradually and greatly enriched Western European powers. From an economic perspective, Europeans were able to reap the benefits of extremely cheap labor, free and abundant land, rich natural resources, and abundant markets around the world to sell their products. The conquest and settlement of the Americas is the key starting point for understanding the rise of European economic and imperial power. The newfound wealth of the Americas clearly set the stage for the economic ascendance of Western Europe beginning in this era of

The Sugar Industry has been around since the 1500s when the Spanish and Portuguese were colonizing Latin America to be one of the most powerful and prosperous countries in the world. The new world saw a lot of opportunity for the Spaniards with the introduction of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, that brought millions of African slaves to Europe and Latin America, which helped the formation of some of the largest empires in the world’s history. Sugar became such a dependent factor in Latin American economies that colonies became so reliant on sugar production as their only good to fuel their local economy. But, the sugar industry opened up massive new forms of trade to linked to the new world regions. The sugar industry left it impacts on the

During the early years of the fifteenth century, Europe had tried to make itself a competing force in the world. With the failed efforts of the crusades and the attempts to spread their catholic religion, it is easy to say that they were not succeeding in establishing themselves as a civilization. However, they always sought new frontiers in order to improve their cultivation. At this time in history, several different groups around the world began venturing out beyond their native boarders, by sea. These excursions were usually brought about by a natural curiosity of the world and the new technology of sea travel. For the Europeans however, the beginning of their overseas voyages were mostly credited to a fascination with the East. They had known about the marvelous riches and fantastic wonders that reside there. There were several great voyages of that time, but there is one that can be argued as a legitimate turning point in history. The first naval voyage of Spain’s Christopher Columbus would ultimately change the world forever. The reasons why this specific naval voyage is a turning point in history is because it inspired other voyages, discovered a new world for the Europeans, and established a lasting presence in America.