Cultural Impact Of The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange, beginning in 1492 with Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, was a global trading standoff between the Old World and the New World. Plants, animals, and diseases were being traded fervently between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The global and social changes made during this exchange would leave a lasting impression on the Americas in the years that followed.

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

The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of plants, animals, food, and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus came to America, he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back with him to Europe. Columbus began the trade routes which had never been established between Europe and the Americas so his voyages initiated the interchange of plants between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, which doubled the food crop resources available to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Columbian Exchange- The Columbian Exchange was a way exchanging new resources between the new world and the old world. This impacted Europeans and Native Americans positively with the new materials now available, like technology, plants, and animals. There were some negative effects from these exchanges too, such as diseases. Made it easier to interact with other cultures.

The long history between Native American and Europeans are a strained and bloody one. For the time of Columbus’s subsequent visits to the new world, native culture has

The Columbian Exchange 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 everywhere.

The Columbian Exchange refers to the time period in which the Native Americans of North America traded plants, animals, livestock, diseases, and new modernized technology with the Europeans. Not only were these things spread between the two nations, but the word was spread that North America was a new place for world to come and make their own. The early days of colonizing America was not successful for most of the countries wanting a part of it. These countries included England, Spain, and Portugal. The reasons behind them not finding prosperity in this land was because it was unchartered and no one knew what the land contained. The people struggled with adapting different and untried farming methods. Most of the exploring that was done brought many issues between the Native Americans and the new coming country. Provided that the Natives didn’t want new settlers on their land, and the settlers didn’t want any issues with claiming this new land as their own.

The Columbian Exchange was a time when the Europeans and the Native North Americans exchanged many cultural and physical ideas and items from both the New World and Old. The Europeans gave the Natives a sense of civilization when they were given a written alphabet, farming capabilities, new warfare technology, and improved building techniques. This invasion of culture gave the Europeans room to spread their knowledge of Christianity and allow them to attempt conversion of the Natives. By teaching the Natives how to read and write a European language, the Europeans could now more easily communicate and trade with the people of the New World. Giving the Natives the use of a plow for their farming techniques, gave the Europeans access to endless

I also found the Geographic theory interesting, geography plays a major role on the way we trade goods. Some nations are much easier to move through while others make it dangerous and nearly impossible to transport. The spread of the disease also played a role when the conquistadores came the Mexico. Europe was an already thriving nation and where exposed to many diseases do to the daily interaction with animals, his made I the spread of diseases easy, whether the conquistadores did it deliberately or not. I disagree that cultural and religious divide come from superstations. I agree that cultural and religious dived are an influence on development and growth, ever nation is different as every religion is different, once that barrier get passed,

In 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew set their sails across the Atlantic Ocean with hopes of arriving in the East. However, they mistakenly voyaged their way into the Americas. With the intention of gaining wealth and spreading Christianity, the Spanish launched their ships in the coastal regions of the West Indies. Christopher Columbus, upon arrival, forcefully dominated the land of the “Indians”. In his letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the Spanish sailor mentioned that as soon as he arrived in Indies, in the first Island which he found, he took by force some of them, in order that they might learn and give him information of that which there is in those parts.1 For the people of the Americas, however, the invasion of their land spiraled into a series of unfortunate events.

Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas set the precedent for the European conquest of it. In fact, his tactics of taking land, wealth, and labor from the indigenous populations were carried out by many of the Europeans who later came to the Americas. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, whose country eventually benefited from this endeavor, financially supported Columbus. However, not all people included benefited from Columbus’ ‘discovery’ of the Americas. It also led to the decimation of several populations of indigenous peoples. Bartlomé de Las Casas provided a first hand account of the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola. In his account, Las Casas states “the multitude of people who had originally lived on [Hispaniola]… was consumed at such a rate that in those eight years ninety percent had perished.” Furthermore, Adam Smith reported that “to the natives, however… all the commercial benefits which can have resulted from [the discovery of America] have been sunk and lost in the dreadful misfortunes which they have occasioned.” Through comparing these sources from different time periods and regions, we can confirm that Columbus’ discovery of the Americas led to drastic consequences for the Native Americans, whilst improving the quality of life and economic standing for Europeans.

From the start of mankind to present day, the human race has been a rapidly evolving society. Having begun developing thousands of languages, to constructing the tallest man made structures to exist, humans have obtained countless achievements for not being around for very long compared to other species. Christopher Columbus, unknowingly, discovered a whole new world and started the exploration of the Americas for everyone to come in the future. He opened the gate for the exploration of the Spanish, French, and English in the New World. These three groups of people, while all from different places and of varying mindsets, all colonized in the Americas and had contrasting interactions with the Native Americans.

European exploration in the New World marked a new era, and the beginning of colonization in the America’s. As soon as the Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish touched the New World, changes in trade, technology, and population became prominent. Changes were shared between all communities; such as changes in local and international trade, changes in agricultural techniques, and changes in race, slavery, and social systems.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew set their sails across the Atlantic Ocean with hopes of arriving in the East. However, they mistakenly voyaged their way into the Americas. With the intention of gaining wealth and spreading Christianity, the Spanish launched their ships in the coastal regions of the West Indies. Christopher Columbus, upon arrival, forcefully dominated the land of the “Indians”. In his letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the Spanish sailor mentioned that as soon as he arrived in Indies, in the first Island which he found, he took by force some of them, in order that they might learn and give me information of that which there is in those parts1 For the people of the Americas, however, the invasion of their land spiraled into a series of unfortunate events.

The spaniards arrived at the new world and killed / converted many native americans in the name of “manifest destiny” which was the prophecy of globalization towards the eastern parts of the new world.