Following the massive influx of goods in the transatlantic trade system the value of the Spanish economy experienced a shift. Despite the fact that the Spanish found a considerable amount of …show more content…
People in Europe shared one thing with the New world settlers and that was the feeling that the European is superior to other people's or racism. At this time the Spanish inquisition had just taken hold and this may have been the cause of Native American enslavement. The functions of men a women did not change during the era of the Colombian exchange simply because there was no need to change them. The main reason that their was little change in Europe is because there were other thing going on specifically the Protestant Reformation, the Spanish Inquisition and Religious wars. So simply the actions of a handful of explorers and traders halfway across the world, did not make the type of impact on the common man's life the as the event happening in his own