The main discussion of points of this harkness were the Spanish explorers and the effects of the Columbian Exchange. The discussion took awhile to get into full swing. Although for group A I found it very interesting how they really got on the path to saying that the Columbian Exchange was a necessary step that needed to happen, and benefited them later on. What they failed to notice until later in the discussion was that a hundred million Natives were killed, and nothing can ever be so beneficial that it make up for the loss of that many lives. All of the questions for group A revolved around the positive and negative effects that the Spaniards had on the native americans and who benefited more. With that it is once again hard to say that
