Benefits Of Curiosity

Curiosity can be beneficial in many ways. It helps one overcome their fears and move forward to a new horizon. Curiosity can also be one of the most dangerous emotions of a human being, and not only harmful towards oneself. Someone else’s curiosity can demand another to pay the price. It is within human nature to press the boundaries and achieve greatness for oneself or their nation. For example, humanity’s ambition to reach the moon. Another example, Europeans desire to expand their country. To be more specific, the columbian exchange. The Spanish conquering of the Americas resulted in a disastrous and beneficial exchange, depending on which side one looks at.

The columbian exchange was the trades between the Old World, which was all of the Eastern Hemisphere, and the New World, which would be the Americas. The trades …show more content…
Before Europeans travelled to new continents, there was very minimal contact between countries that were far away. Trading of goods would only occur in nearby countries. So when the conquistadors came to the new land which had not been exposed to other life forms than that of those around them, many diseases broke out. Such as smallpox, ……… More than half of the population was wiped out by diseases within a century. Some new diseases travelled to the Old World as well but it did not do as much damage as was done to the New World. Some scientists suggest the possibility that these new diseases were already occurring in the New World, they just weren’t documented until the spaniards came along. The natives weren’t the only people who had been attacked by diseases; the spaniards on arriving back to spain, spread a disease to the common folk killing many. Although it was not as devastating as the effects were on the natives. These effects were short term as they did not last longer than a century. Another biological effect that is more long term is the large amount of mixed