The Columbian Exchange was an extensive period of trading and giving that impacted people’s lives for the better and as well for the worse. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of agricultural goods and communicable diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after 1492. In this year, Christopher Columbus's voyage of discovery launched an era of large-scale contact and relationships between the Old and the New World that resulted in this extraordinary…
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The Columbian Exchange era begin in 1492 when Christopher Columbus settled to the new land which was later called America. America’s resources are the reason for the success that Europe had from the Columbian Exchange. Studied by historian Alfred Crosby, this was a process in which the animals, plants, and bacteria life mixed in the New Worlds. It was a time of cultural exchanges between the New World and the Old World. In this time, many people were making discoveries that would affect the Worlds…
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Europe’s Relationship With the Americas The year was 1493 when Christopher Columbus first wrote about his discovery of the Americas. The finding of this new land drastically altered the history of Europe. Immediately after the discovery of the Americas, Europe used the new land to expand economically by seeking resources, which they could use and sell to other countries. They exploited the natives and used them as slaves for their own benefit. While exchanging resources, they brought with them diseases…
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died after a couple days, and some small villages were wiped out. However, this plague did not affect Scandinavia due to the weather or India. Chinese, European, and Islamic areas suffered the most. The plague impacted the society and economy as well. Although an antibiotic was discovered in the 1940, the disease still exists in rodent groups in the world. 2. Columbian Exchange (371-372) The Columbian Exchange was the global spread of plants, crops, population, disease, and animals that happened…
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groups who became religious minorities, such as Puritans, Anglicans, Quakers, and Pilgrims. This led to a social unrest and turmoil, as many of the minorities were prosecuted. North America was seen as a safe place and thus these minorities became some of the first colonists of the New World. The Columbian Exchange, named after…
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cultures. With the tobacco plantations, however, slaves lived in close proximity and sometimes even with the masters and were able to have the African-European creolization that we know eventually made the African American society. * Columbian exchange would also be an example of creolization. Europeans brought over all types of diseases (Don’t say this was creolization, although it was PART of it, death is NOT creolization), animals (excluding dogs), plants; such as wheat, barley, and oats…
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To explain, Spanish conquistadors treated the Native Americans in North America with cruelty and only did it out of greed for power and wealth. As referenced in Document 10, a primary source, “A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies” by Bartolome de las Casas, “Yet into these sheep came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like…
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precious metals from New World The Columbian Exchange (transfer of resources, plants, animals, & diseases) Europe provided markets, capital, & technology Africa provided labor New World provided raw materials & farmland Chapter 2: 4) How did England’s victory over the Spanish Armada influence English colonization? Helped ensure English naval dominance in North Atlantic Nationalism spread throughout England 5) How was the Virginia charter significant and how did it lead to revolution a century…
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specific lifestyles of evolution in society. -connotation makes Africans seem primitive, because tribes are viewed as a primitive style. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: can tie along with how myths and stereotypes shape our view. -european writers would describe African societies by these means, and this shapes how readers view -a subjective experience Sahel: shore, desert like the sea, where dessert gives way to the savannah -trans-saharan trade route-pre 1500 -transhumance occupants- wet and…
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chiefdom:A societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people. 4. Clovis culture: The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. 5. Fertile Crescent: Region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture…
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