The Discovery Of The Americas

The discovery of the New world or America in the year 1492, and The Columbian Exchange it played a significant role on bring resources to various parts of the world. It brought the exchange of various resources like plants, animals, and diseases across the world. The year was 1492 is when Christopher set sail and put in motion The Columbian Exchange or also known as The Great Exchange. The Columbian Exchange affected the geographic location with the trading routes with Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. Also, The Exchange affected the economic with various countries with the trading. Finally, it affected the social change that made us the county we are to this day. With this exchange set forth the trading of various

Europeans followed a Christian way of life, “In keeping with their Christian beliefs, most Europeans took literally the biblical admonition to subdue the earth and exert dominion over it.”They followed what the bible said and they often tried to convert others such as the Native Americans to Christianity. If they did convert then there would be severe consequences, “The Europeans came as messengers from God to convert the Natives to Christianity, as they saw it. Spanish missions converted many Natives. However, those who would not convert were killed or imprisoned”. Since Native Americans did not practice the religion of Christianity they practiced more of nature or spirit worship. In the book “America” it says, “Native Americans did not worship a single God but believed in many ‘spirits’”. They believed in Gods such as sun Gods,corn gods and nature spirits of birds, bears and wolves.

By definition, a revolution is the overthrow of a suppressive government in favor of a new government, but it is also defined as a large change in society, or how it works. After the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, European Nations competed in a race against one another to claim pieces of the new land. Before Columbus found this land, the sea separating the New World from Europe seemed endless. The Europeans were only interested in the land to the East. But with the New World there was so much to explore. The Europeans tossed aside their old toy to go play with a new one. During this time period of conquest throughout the New World it became known as the Age of Exploration. A New World meant more land, which meant places to build homes and plant crops, and more money to be earned by buying out new houses and selling new crops grown in foreign soil. These times of change are known as the American Revolution.

They saw themselves as acting in the best interests of these people, bringing them Christianity and civilization. This attitude destroyed traditional beliefs and social values, however, and had a negative effect on colonized populations.” European explorers such as the Conquistadors wanted to convert the indigenous people to Christianity and by doing this they destroyed the culture of the native americans. If you did not convert you were killed and if you chose to convert then you lost touch with your original religion and traditions. Due to the uncompromising behavior of the conquerors religions, traditions and social values of the indians have been lost. European explorers viewed themselves as superior to the indigenous people and by thinking this way they ended up eradicating the diversity of

Charles C. Mann is an American journalist and author. Along with being a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, Mann has also received many writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. He is also the author of national bestseller 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, which won the National Academies Communication Award for "Best Book of the Year." Mann's purpose for writing this book is to educate and inform people about the real situation of people before and after Columbus.

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.

Third his discovery led to the conquering and destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires. While everyone knows that Columbus discovered America in 1492, he never intended to find it in the first place. Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find a faster way to reach China and the rest

Christopher Columbus once said, “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” His journey to the west unfolded many possibilities which started the Age of Discovery and the Age of Exploration. Endless possibilities came about and the new land became one of the fastest developing countries in the world. The world became a better place when Christopher Columbus found the new world because new trade expanded the market, the economy grew and proof of land was discovered which sparked curiosity in explorers. The commence of the Americas started with a hopeful explorer who turned out to make one of the greatest discoveries that ultimately changed the world.

We live in a world where we are surrounded by different people who come from very different backgrounds. We live in the United States, where it is filled with a very diverse community. We bump into people who are from a different race, religion, and culture. We should not be ashamed of this, but rather we should embrace who we are. Unfortunately, here in the United States, not everyone thinks that way. As children we tend to believe everything people tells us, especially when it comes from a teacher, which they are suppose to teach us and make us aware. As children, we were taught that the white men always save the day and they were our heroes. This is called Eurocentric, focusing on just Europeans and their culture and their history. But what happens to the rest of the history, the history of the people before the Europeans arrived to America?

The effect that I think had the most significant impact on the Americas is agriculture because lives for people became easier. Before they hunted or gathered what they ate, and afterwards they benefited from a more steady and dependable food source. Before they regularly moved to look for “big

The most important impact of the Age of Exploration on Europe and the Americas, was when Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. This created a long lasting impact that would change the new and old world forever.

The discovery of the Americas was accidental, but it was the catalyst for the many changes and interactions between different countries. The indigenous population of the Americas where naïve to the economic pursuits of the explorers. When Europe, Africa and the newly discovered Americas collided in 1492, it forever changed history through the exchange of agriculture, transmittance of disease and expansion of slavery.

In modern times, we often utilize "globalization" when discussing collaborations between various nations and areas of the world. However, this idea of the world being connected was very sparse up until around 500 years ago, when all the world was divided up and isolated by oceans. Christopher Columbus, with his voyage to the New World, single-handedly caused a surge of exchanges throughout various regions in the world. His discovery of the New World created a new age not only for America but also Asia, Europe, and Africa. This event would later be known as the Columbian Exchange, where oceans did not seem to be barriers, but rather opportunities, connecting the Old World and New World with trade routes, impacting both “sides”. There is no

No I have never heard of Cahokia before. However, the great, past city seems amazing and their civilization was astounding. It surprised me that they had a sort of constitutional system and laws. Some misconceptions the Europeans had about the Native Americans was that they were savages. They believed the inhabitants of the “New World” were cannibalistic, having no sense of culture or religion. This proved not to be true as the Native Americans were incredibly religious. They worshiped Mother Nature and animals. They also had a belief that the sun was a God. In the Cahokia tribe, the kind would wake up the earliest every morning, go to the tallest hill, and howl to the Sun God, telling him to come up.

In modern America, we often take for granted the natural world that surrounds us and the American culture which is built upon it. For many of us, we give little thought to the food sources that sustain and natural habitats that surround us because when viewed for what they are, most people assume that they have “simply existed” since the country was founded. However, the documentary ‘America Before Columbus’ provided this writer an extremely interesting record of how the America we know came to exist. In the documentary, one of the most interesting discussions centered on the fact that it was not merely the arrival of conquistadors and colonists that irrevocably changed the landscape of the Americas, but that it was also the coined term known as the “Columbian Exchange” that afforded these travelers the ability to proliferate so successfully. The basic definition of the Columbian exchange is one that defines the importation of European flora and fauna. It could also loosely represent other imports, both intended and unintended, such as tools, implements, and even disease. Armed with this definition, it takes little imagination to envision how differently the Americas might have developed had any significant amount of the native European flora, fauna, or other unintended import not been conveyed to the Americas through the Columbian Exchange. Beyond the arrival of explorers, settlers, and colonists to the New World, the breadth of what the Columbian Exchange represented to