Fundamental factors that drew European exploration, conquest, and settlement were trade, resources, and expansion. The whole purpose of Christopher Columbus traveling over seas was to find new trade routes to Asia, but ending up accidentally "discovering" the New World. With the news of discovering the New World, people from Europe and Spain have begun to sail and conquer and claim territory nearly killing off the inhabitants of the New World. Conquering these already discovered lands means countries like Spain and England could expand further west of the hemisphere. With claiming new territory, the Europeans found new foods and lands to dig up gold.…
As for Spain they were provided a variety of fruits and vegetables, this created a new sourced of wealth for Europeans. Europe established a relationship between countries, which helped Spain become a major world power. The Columbian also introduced Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Because of the diseases Europeans were transferring, which killed the Native Americans, Europeans resulted to using Africans as slaves. This caused population and culture loss.…
Identify two effects of the Columbian exchange had on Native Americans. The Columbian exchange caused the deaths of thousands of Native Americans from the diseases brought by the European settlers. However, the Columbian exchange also brought horses, cows and pigs to the Americas. 8.…
The discovery of the Americas lead to a global trade network of manufactured goods and agricultural produce being introduced and exchanged, changing the native’s lifestyle. Europeans first introduced the native americans to new produce such as horses, chickens, goats, dogs, grape vines, onions, sugar cane, wheat, and apple trees. Due to this, the lifestyle and diet of a native american had more components. Horses were used as an efficient transportation instead of walking on feet as they did before horses were brought to the Americas. Their staple meal of mainly starch-based foods(potatoes, corn, beans, etc) was introduced with a variety of meat, fruits, and vegetables.…
The Columbian Exchange was an event that was extremely significant to the world. The Columbian Exchange allowed people to see foods that they had never seen before. America brought to Europe peppers, maize, potatoes, tomatoes, snap beans, lime beans, and squash. Today, maize and potatoes are the biggest and most important crop item in Europe and used daily. Europe brought to America the crops of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and millet.…
We owe America´s success to our founding fathers who broke from England, before that the pilgrims who came here to escape religious persecution. But in the beginning it was the famous explorers who set out to discover new lands for European monarchies that shaped the country and society we live in today. European exploration was a movement during the years 1440-1550 in which Europe's prominent countries: Spain, France, and Portugal, were on a race to conquer the unclaimed lands of the New world. Colonization happened once explorers, hired by the monarchies, claimed lands for their country, and citizens looking new life took a ship to the New World and settled there.…
Before the Age of Exploration, Europeans had lost control of the Mediterranean areas. This has influenced Europeans to start exploring because without control over Mediterranean their trading relations were decreasing and would result in them losing power. As a result European explorers have discovered the Columbian exchange. As shown in Document 3, the Columbian exchange had increased the trading relationship between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is believed that the Columbian exchange was significant because it emphasizes the spread of food, ideas, and technology.…
Horses brought from Europe were quickly adopted by North American tribes such as the Apache and the Sioux for transportation. The most significant and devastating effect of the Columbian Exchange was the death toll of the diseases exchanged between Old World and New World peoples. European invaders brought diseases such as smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever. Natives gave Europeans syphilis in return, but its effects did not ravage the European continent in the same way that European diseases did for the Americas. After being isolated from the Eastern Hemisphere for over a millennia, indigenous peoples were especially vulnerable…
The native Americans showed the Europeans many safe places basically gave them a tour of their village and help them collect food, water and create shelter. Soon language became one of the problems between both of them most of the communication between them was sign language. Indians were not able to form a successful coalition against the Europeans because Europeans were way more advanced with technology. Europeans brought many things along with them such as weapons, men, horses, and most of all diseases. Native Americans could not fight against disease many of them…
The quest of European nations to obtain resources and wealth lead to the trade of goods between Europe, the Americas, and Africa, known as the Columbian Exchange/ Triangular Trade. In this system, American colonies sent sugar, tobacco, cotton, and other raw goods to Europe. In return, Europe sent textiles, rum, and manufactured goods to Africa. Then, African slaves were sent back to the Americas to supply a labor force. European exploration marked a major shift in how economic activity functioned in the Americas.…
Native Americans and Africans were used to benefit the colonists that arrived to the New World. Treatments towards the Natives and Africans were inhuman and cruel. Slavery had existed long before the 1490s, but Indians being used as slaves was rare. The arrival of the Europeans had caused Africans kidnapped from their home and Natives had their homeland snatched from them. Both civilizations rights did not exist anymore.…
In the time period of 1707- 1950 CE many revolutions happened among the countries of the world. New ideas in science and industries developed with the growth and changes around the world. Social and political wars were a result of these revolutions in this time period. Changes that followed the American Revolution, included cultural, political and economic; nationalism developed; the consequences of cultural, economic, and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries changed the world.…
The Indians shared their knowledge of foods like maize (corn), tomatoes, pumpkins, and chocolate. The Europeans shared their knowledge of foods like wheat, sugarcane, chickens, and cattle. As an effect of the wider variety of food, the diets of the two evolved overtime. In addition to the various supplies and food, the European people unfortunately also traded their diseases such as smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, and malaria.5 The Native American people began to catch their diseases, because they had no immunity or treatment for them.…
Shanai Jones 10/13/15 U.S.History 3A Essay As a proud and humbled Native American, that is apart of a group of people who were the first settlers on the face of the American Continent, and to go up against the disadvantages and unfairness that we were treated with, makes me feel disturbed and enraged. The settlers deprived us from our land, enforced their religion, shifted us onto reservation camps and had the audacity to call us godless…
Europeans needed slaves, so they took advantage of the Indians and forced them to be their slaves. When they found Indians, they could use to build and sell things, they captured and solved them as slaves. Also, new trade routes were discovered when the connection between Europe and the Americas happened. The Europeans introduced trade goods to Indians which interested them into using them in their everyday lives. Another important aspect to the Europeans, was the spread of religion because the Indians would be the first people they could introduce it to.…