The Impacts Of Columbus's Voyages

One of the impacts of Columbus’s voyages was the opening of North America to settlements and exploitation. Another impact was the devastation of native populations through diseases subjugation and environmental deterioration The first european to visit the north American coastline was Leif Eriksen who created a settlement in the newfoundland area of canada the 11th century. Centuries later in 1942 Christopher Columbus while searching for a route to the far east inadvertently explored some of the islands in the caribbean and the south American coast line.

The implications were profound for both the old world and the new world.Europeans benefited from raw materials brought back from the Americas. They also adopted nutritious foods from the