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between the Old World and the Americas. It’s one of the most important events in history. It was the time of the exchange of goods and different ideas from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. However, it was also the time of the spread of diseases, which began in 1492 when Columbus arrived in the West Indies. The Columbian Exchange impacted the world negatively in many ways such as disease, Smoking tobacco, and slavery. To begin, one of the negative things that happened in The Old World was the infection

"Following the light of the sun, we left the old world.", said Christopher Columbus the world's most famous navigator. Christopher Columbus set out to cross the Atlantic, while he was on his journey he discovered not only Americas, but also that the world was round. Christopher Columbus was born in 1436 in Genoa, Italy. Columbus parents were Domenico Columbo, and his mother was Susanna Foutanarossa. He was the oldest of four siblings. Their names were Bartholomew Columbus, Gioranni Pellegrino Columbus

World history in general is a very controversial topic, but world history concerning Christopher Columbus is by far the most renowned debate in history. Columbus is no longer the national symbol that everybody idolized just decades ago, there may be a day that Columbus is eradicated from history books. This change of idolization is because of a change in time. Since, Columbus’ voyages, societies have advanced in knowledge, which resulted in new questions. Columbus did in fact make a change in history

tells the truth about how they barely survived their interactions with Native Americans, and their spread. The story incorporates various reoccurring themes such as Identity, Work Exchange and Technology, Peopling, Politics and Power, America in the World, Environment and Geography, and Ideas Beliefs and Culture. The first theme is Identity. This does not only focus on the first group to enter the Americas from other countries, it includes people before them, and the ones coming after. Before the

years that the Americas were a vastly unpopulated land until Columbus came. However new evidence disputes this previously thought notion. Archeologist, who have been studying the remains of Native American culture, have found evidence suggesting that the Indians were in the Americas for much longer and in greater numbers than what was believed. This new evidence shows us the impact the Europeans had on the New World and gives us insight into what the Americas were like before the Europeans and what

is a global exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) and the New World (America). When Columbus first discovered America, Spain wanted to set up colonies. Columbus found some people that he named “Indians.” They colonies started to trade with each other, and by doing do, they started the Columbian Exchange. Many countries were involved in this trade, including China, Africa and Italy. This exchange of new ideas, traditions, food, religion and diet changed cultures

people who had landed on there territory. The natives saw no harm in Columbus and his men and offered them most of the things they had as gifts. They were willing to give the Europeans anything they wanted. All of the things the Europeans had were new to them. For example in Columbus’s own journal, I Take Possession for King and Queen, he states that:      I showed one my sword, and through ignorance he grabbed it by the blade and cut       

be, by historians (working primarily from historical documents created by Europeans, with a decidedly Euro centric slant), as well as by the white, euro-American population, to be the great discoverer of the New World. Christopher Columbus changed the way man looked at his world, creating a new global perspective, and opening the floodgates of

Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the America’s was monumental. His exploration of the New World impacted the culture, and development of America. One of these effects was the expansion of goods and products in the decades after Columbus’s first contact with Americans. Other effects included how these goods and products affected Amerindians and Europeans which also influenced the Columbian Exchange. Christopher Columbus’s influence on the Americas and Europe is the main reason why he is still

carried the Old World and New Worlds apart, splitting North and South America from Eurasia and Africa, eventually creating two separate biological worlds (Crosby, 2009). In 1491, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were nearly impassable barriers, and America might as well have been on another planet from Europe and Asia (Morris, 2011). However, when Christopher Columbus and his fellow voyagers made land in the Bahamas in 1492, the plant, animal, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix, and