The Old World : Columbus And The New World

Before reading this article I have never heard of Cahokia before it surprised me that it was 15 acres. I think that more people should go see it because it is a big part of America before Columbus discovered it. The Europeans had a lot of misconceptions about North America because first they though it was the Indies and had no idea it was there. They also had no idea that their immune system wasn’t used to diseases like the common cold and the plague. They were a civilized culture because they do a lot of what we do. They traded, held ceremonies, had religious beliefs, and in their own way had a government. The wildlife has changed a lot. There are more trees because we replanted them when the Native Americans did not.

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

Christopher Columbus discovered America or “the new world.” He was a navigator, explorer, and colonizer.

The world is a better place because of Christopher Columbus’ important discoveries in the New World. His explorations resulted in the vast expansion of property for Europe, the exchange of goods and cultures between countries and a change in the worldview of geography. Columbus’s explorations were the catalyst for unprecedented trade known as the Columbian Exchange, which started the exchange of goods and ideas that would last for centuries and change the world forever. His discoveries unearthed new perspectives and created a mix of diverse biology between Europe and the New World. These exchanges changed the world we live in today and will continue to fuel centuries of exploration and discoveries.

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 Columbian exchange is an interchange of plants, ideas, diseases and many more things traded between the New World and the Old World during the 15th and 16th century. It all began in 1492 after Christopher Columbus went on his voyage and discovered the New World. After discovering the New World many milestones in history began to form. Following in his steps of his new discovery came some of the Europeans. Since the Colombian exchange began, many things have been brought to America and many things have been sent over in the directions. The Old World has brought over many supplies as in sugar, coffee, horses and smallpox. The Americas brought to them corn, cocoa beans, and tomatoes in their exchange. Not only did the old and the new world bring great things to each other, they also brought diseases and a decrease in the population of the new world. Instead of the old world taking in the new world’s culture, it was reversed. The new world had taken in the old world’s way of lifestyle.

In the article Hello Columbus: America was No Paradise in 1492, by Robert Royal, Royal argued that Native Americans, along with Columbus, are portrayed wrongly in society today, from schools to media.

• had a formal language to write, a type of counting system, an correct calendar, and a agri system that was ahead of the time

After the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, this sparked the interests of the Columbian Exchange. This was a global network that allowed for the transfer of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases between America and the Old World. Although hindering the developments of societies around the world with diseases, the Columbian Exchange mostly aided these advancements with its trade of crops and silver and technological advances.

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.

Christopher Columbus created awareness of new opportunity and freedoms when he brought the Americas into world view. This opportunity attracted colonists

Christopher Columbus and a hundred men discovered the New World on accident. Even though it

The Columbian exchange had a huge impact on the world, from various species of plants and animals being discovered on either side of the world to the diseases that killed over half of the Native American population. The number of species of animals, plants, and even diseases that were spread from the Old World to the New World, and vice versa was innumerable. Christopher Columbus’ journey to the Americas helped shape today’s world. Had he not made this journey there might not have been the exchanges that took place in the early 1600s, and the world might not have been the way it is today, which is why the Columbian exchange was one of the most important cultural blending that ever happened. There are many things that have changed in terms

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.

As Christopher Columbus takes the Atlantic Ocean by sail, many scholars take him as to be the “First” European traveler to have set both feet on the ground of the Americas. As Columbus reaches land on October 12,1492, he first sets foot in the Bahamas, on an island he claims “San Salvador”. While on the island, Columbus successfully takes control of the land and its “habitant” people, with the support of the Spanish. When Columbus writes the letter to Luis de Santangel, the minister of finance for the Spanish crown; he describes the island as “large and flat, with bright green trees and much water” (Columbus p26). Columbus does not mention anything else that is important with his discovery; he only describes reaching the “New World” as an idyllic fantasy-like adventure, where on the island, nature is working together peacefully. When news came back from Columbus about his fantasy-like voyage to the “harmonious” island, it received massive attention by traveling literature, such as a poem called “Bermuda” by Andrew Marvell; it gave European settlers who were back home an ideal depiction of what a voyage would be like going to the New World. However, when the settlers ventured off on a voyage, they did not experience the “welcoming” feeling as the poem claims it to be; instead, they experienced terrible tragedies such as having to deal with mother-nature, starvation, and excruciating punishments.