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benefits of Columbus' discovery of the New World far outweigh the negative results of that enterprise; because his discovery stimulated further development of both Europe and the New World. His voyage was an epochal and magnificent discovery in that it confirmed the roundness of the earth and gave new validity to science, expanded trade and opened new markets and led to the industrialization of Europe, and opening the doors to a new world because the Old World was overcrowded and torn by strife.

large-scale sailing, the beginning of the connection between the old continent and the new continent, and caused a great variety of ecological changes.He traveled four times across the Atlantic from 1492 to 1502 under the support of the King of Spain. Since Columbus’ discovery in 1942,the Columbian exchange began.The Columbian exchange was a biological and cultural exchanges between the old world and the New world.The exchanges of animals , diseases,plants,and technology etc, affected and transformed

years after Columbus, the European powers raced to settle and colonize in the new world and ultimately remove anyone or anything in the way of that. Upon the Discovery of the Americas, the European powers raced to the Americas to utilize the land for its resources and ultimately became reliant on the Americas to answer the needs of the European society and economy. The Americas provided the Europeans with a whole new selection of resources to help power the European economy. These resources were

Christianity has been an impactful religion throughout the world due to its constant diffusion carried out by the Europeans. Europeans had stayed in one part of the world until the fifteenth century. By the end of the century they set out to explore further west. Further west they found what they called the “ New World” and in this world different people with unique customs. The Europeans found these customs too unique and thought of them as “savages.” As a result, they decided to convert the “savages”

berries and other foods that can be gathered (Denevan 1992:378). By the late eighteenth century, do to the shrinkage of the Indian population, field abandonment, and reduction in burning a case can be made that the environment will recover across the New World but the pace of the recovery will be varied. Denevan concludes by claiming that the pristine image of the Americas in 1492 was a misrepresentation, in other words, a myth (Denevan,

“Following the light from the sun, we left the Old World.” Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic. As Christopher led an exploration of the new world, it opened the possibilities to Spain’s rise in global power, the spread of Christianity, and the start of the Columbian Exchange. Columbus voyaged place and obtained things like gold to boost Spain’s global power. Columbus had voyaged to please King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in the hope he would

Can you imagine a world in which the USA was not the multicultural nation that it is today? It would have been like this if it were not for the the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange was a major event that took place in the late 1400's and the 1500's. It brought about an exchange in ideas and raw materials between the New World and the Old World. There were pros and cons to the Columbian Exchange, the benefits being that it gave both groups new crops and animals, in addition to making the

there was an exchange of diseases, trade, crops, and migration between the New World and the Old World. First the Columbian Exchange caused a large majority of deaths by diseases for the Native American. The Europeans exposed the natives to sicknesses they had never been exposed to before and thus they had built no immunity or defense to them. Although several diseases were transferred from the old world to the new world the deadliest includes smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic

States History 5 September 2014 The Effects of the Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange refers to the period in which the New World and Old world began trade. This included the exchange of technology, animals, plants, disease, and religion which transformed both European and Native American ways of life. This exchange impacted the social and cultural aspects of both worlds and encouraged advancements in agriculture, warfare, and increased rates in mortality and raised education. In the late 15th

the globe, but it brought the world together and increased our knowledge overall as it pertains to the societies of our world. The Columbian exchange brought the world together. Some may argue that this was a bad thing rather than a good thing, but I disagree. In some ways, this concept is similar to the increase of knowledge since it brings attention to the following question: had the Columbian Exchange never taken place, what would we know of the world we live in today?