Pros And Cons Of The Columbian Exchange

Take Home Midterm The Columbian exchange started in 1492, with Christopher Columbus landing on the shores of San Salvador. It was the start of new technological advances but the start of disease spreading across the world. The Columbian Exchange was also the start of one of the most significant results of the Age of Exploration and the First Global Age. This was a start of a New World (Americas) and it influenced technology, farming, disease, and cultural life for both the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (European, Africa, and the Middle East). These influences to the new era that’s had many “pros” and “cons” outcomes to the world we live to today. There were hundreds of different entities that have traveled between the New and …show more content…
Many lands were discovered during this period by the Europeans. The primary player in the Age of Discovery and exploration was Portugal. They took the major role in the fifteenth century to search for a route to Asia and acquire wealth and knowledge about navigation and mapping out the Atlantic Ocean. Overall Portugal had a huge role in the Age of Discovery and starting it. They also had a significant role in the African Slave Trade. Portugal made an enormous contribution to the Age of Discovery. It started with the Prince Henry the Navigator, who was credited for promoting the Age of Discovery. He regulated voyages of discovery, and promoted the adoption of New navigational and nautical technology. Through all his promotion of the navigation technology his main contribution was the development of cartography, which is the science and drawing maps. Due to his development of cartography Portugal had some of the utmost detailed and accurate maps at the time; which was a huge advantage to the Portuguese. The workhorse of the Age of Discovery was the ship, especially for Portugal who wanted to get ahead in the trade