Christopher Columbus Experience Essay

Hello journal, long time no see. I have been awfully busy lately with my travels and haven’t had time to write. Anyway, I am writing this journal entry regarding my experiences that have occurred since I have been in Rome. As I was exploring, I ran into a man by the name of Christopher Columbus who told me about a new land called America. He had discovered this land with a group of native people called the Native Americans. Christopher specified that when he established America, he initially thought the area was India. When Christopher and the natives exchanged food, the Europeans all of a sudden wanted more. This was later called the Columbian exchange (The global transfer of foods, plants and animals during the colonization of the Americas).

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