Changes And Continuities Between 1492 And 1750

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Throughout Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas, a lot has changed through the years of 1492 and 1750, there has been slave trade and several explorations set out to search for a New World, the countries had both differences and similarities throughout the years. As the years went by, the countries expanded and had several trading posts and trading ideals throughout all three of the areas. The countries all had the influence of the Columbian Exchange, which provided supplies and food for all of the countries to flourish and each place had the expansion or spread of religions and the use of maps, as they were sent out across the globe for the world to use. In Western Europe there has been evidence of population growth after the tragic …show more content…

The population grew throughout Western Europe because of a trade route called the Columbian Exchange, this exchange of goods allowed for the nutrition to go up throughout the villages of Western Europe during this time. Sometime after the tragedy of the bubonic plague, there were explorations that were supported by many countries, but the one that is most famous for it is Spain because that was the country that produced Christopher Columbus and sponsored his travels. As the explorations went on, explorer after explorer, there was a New World that was found or founded, this area is known today as the Americas. In the Americas explorers established colonies, like the one John Smith founded, the town of Jamestown. The people who settled in the New World didn’t want to continue to be apart of the European nations, so there was a war …show more content…

Slaves were exported from the country of Africa because the need to grow and harvest sugarcane became very large, and so the need for people to do the labor increased. Although the population wasn’t that large, it rapidly increased with the exchange of goods through the Columbian Exchange. The growth in population meant that the need for slaves or the desire to have slaves was specific to their region. In the Americas, the people who were the slaves were either enslaved natives or slaves that were sent to the Americas from Africa in order to be used for labor. Although there was the growth in population due to the Columbian exchange, the population did decrease due to the need for slaves to work and help out with the sugarcane

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