America Before The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange had major effects on both European societies and also the native societies, eventually changing both of their lives drastically forever. As The Europeans came and settled in America throughout the late 1400s and early 1500s they concorded America as their own, this would drastically change the European societies forever. As a result of the new settlements Native Americans would be pushed and moved out of their homeland as well. The new European settlements grew larger and larger over the mid 1500s.

In conclusion, if not for the Columbian Exchange, cinnamon rolls would not have been introduced to the world. This mouthwatering treat would not have been brought together without the Columbian Exchange. For instance, the flour in the cinnamon rolls comes from ground wheat. Wheat came from Europe and was transported to the old world. Sugar, which is derived from the sugar cane, that originated in Europe.

The Columbian Exchange occurred between Europe and Africa (the Old World) and the Americas (the New World). The components of the exchange include animals, diseases, and plants; the exchange caused both positive and negative effects on the Old World and the New World. The Old World introduced wheat, rice, apples, horses, cattle, sheep, killing and driving off the animals, syphilis, and smallpox to the New World and impacted civilization greatly. The positive effects for the Old World include new technology, new crops and animals that helped in everyday life, raised nourishment standards and people were living longer lives.

In the late 13th century there was a large movement toward finding new routes by sea to trade with Asian countries. This movement was motivated by the greed of monarchies to accumulate wealth; gain power against rivals; and to spread Christianity. However, the primary motive of exploration was commerce. The Europeans were “starved for gold and silver,” which they needed to purchase goods in Asia, such as spices gems, silks, spices, and other luxuries. As countries, like Spain, set sail in attempts to locate new western trade routes to China, they’ll find what becomes known as the New World, and will have a major impact on the lives the indigenous peoples—Native Americans—through, personal interactions, the transplantation of animals, plants,

Columbus, in 1492, journeyed to find the Indies but stumbled upon the Americas. With the two ‘worlds’ now connected, Columbus began exchanging items and cultures. This has been called the Columbian Exchange. During the Columbian Exchange many things were traded; Beast of burden, grains, vegetables, fruits, plants, and many diseases. All of these have had a meaningful impact on the ‘new’ and ‘old’ world, but only a few have had a large, substantial, and lasting effect on the world today.

The major consequence of Columbus’ voyages was the Columbus Exchange. The Columbus Exchange changed the course of history between the two practically separate worlds. The Old World and the Americas were very different from other. Each one of them had vastly disparate foods, diseases, and animals. Once Columbus “discovered” the Americas an exchange between the New World and Old World began.

The Columbian Exchange began after Christopher Columbus's journey in 1492. Columbus’s discovery of the new, unclaimed, fertile, and abundant land of the Americas leads to the settlement of many Europeans searching for new opportunities to thrive and prosper. The new European settlers allowed for a trade network to be established between the Old World and the New World. Opening the trade network introduced new crops, livestock, and disease to the Americas and the Old World. The spread of these new items leads to both an increase and decrease in the populations of their new habitats, as well as a profitable for the people involved in the new trade network.

The intended audience of the article “ The Columbian Exchange- a History of Disease, Food and Ideas” are scholars and students. The article has large amount of statistics provided about the amount of production of certain foods in certain countries, the amount of exchange between the old world and the new world and the top consuming countries for various new world foods. The foods discovered also includes their benefits and harms. 2. The author’s main argument is that the new world has several impacts on the old world which includes many pros and cons.

I don’t think that the benefits of exploration outweighed its consequences. Even though exploring the New World was an excellent idea, there were consequences. The Columbian exchange brought food, animals, and new plants. Native Americans died from diseases and illness.

The benefits did outweigh the consequences. To start off, I have three topics to support/back up my conclusion that the benefits did outweigh the consequences. Next, the Columbian Exchange. The Native Americans gave the Europeans gold and silver. They also gave them corn, potatoes, beans, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, and cotton.

The word pre-Columbian is used to discuss the history of the Americas in the era before European impact. Pre-Columbian was frequently used in discussing the abundant civilizations of the Americas. During pre-Columbian America, there was nothing, but wilderness and Indians. There were about thirty thousand square miles of desert. The Indians set fires to the trees to kill the area.

There were Spain, England, France, Russia and China expeditions that visited all parts of the Ocean including Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basin. Europeans were not the only people who explored the larger world. However, what makes the Europeans go on a new world excursion to explore new lands? It is to claim new lands, to make their own empire stronger by obtaining natural resources and to develop new empires.