Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange acknowledges that one of the most significant events in history started in 1492 with the discovery of new western lands. The Columbian Exchange consisted of cultural and market trades of goods and people. The trades consisted of many items but most importantly the trade of livestock and crops between America and European countries became the largest advancement towards modern day society. America has gained more knowledge, now having access to farming, they took advantage of their easiness of farming and created larger plantations to create bigger markets. Unfortunately along with the perks of trading these goods, diseases like the common and warfare were brought upon the new lands. Bartolome de las Casa observed the…

The Colombian Exchange and its Effects. The Columbian exchange was a new sea bridge that allowed a transatlantic trade of people, ideas, and goods. It helped the Spaniards bring over Christianity and exposed the New World to many iron technologies such as firearms and pans. Unfortunately, it also brought over many diseases that the Indians had never been exposed to before. The many diseases killed off the Indian population and caused the majority of the descendants to transform from Asians to…

all changed in 1492, when Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic Ocean and ignited a revolutionary movement which would forever alter the world (Biology, Ecology, and the Discovery of the New World). As increasing populations of Europeans settled into the New World, especially in the New England region, they constructed the Columbian Exchange by bringing new animals, plants, and societal traditions which rapidly transformed the environment. Domesticated animals and livestock, a…

Q3: Why did the Columbian Exchange make it easier for the expansion of Europeans into the New World? Understanding how the Columbian Exchange worked and why it was significant to both the Old World and New World is the most important conversation to have. The essay defines the Columbian Exchange as an “artificial re-establishment of connections through the commingling of Old and New World plants, animals, and bacteria.” The author is describing how the two different societies combined their…

period was known as a time when the old world began exploring the new world by sea in search of new goods, land, gold and new trade routes. The information gained during the Age of Exploration greatly allowed geographic knowledge to move forward. European exploration led to global trade and colonization. The old world discovering the new world made the Columbian Exchange: a wide transfer of goods, like food, animals and slaves, and not so good, including communicable diseases and culture. The…

The Columbian Exchange, also known as the Grand Exchange or Triangular Trade, is characterized as "A term for the global changes in the resources, habits, and values of Amerindians (American Indians/Native Americans), Europeans, Africans, and Asians that followed the “discovery” and settlement of the Americas by Europeans and Africans" (Adler and Pouwels G-4). Columbus's discovery of the Americas in 1492 sparked a new avenue of trade. "The term was coined by Alfred W. Crosby in his book The…

Many events and actions occurred during the years 1492 and 1750. The Columbian Exchange occurred and the Europeans had a great influence over the economy of Western Europe and Africa. Although most things the Europeans gained from their economic doings stayed the same, there were also changes that occurred in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. There were many changes during that time period. Changes such as slave trade and the new crops that were introduced. There were also things that did not…

My experience in this project has been interesting, the start of learning the information about the Columbian Exchange was all over the place. We learned and took notes of what we were told to looks but I feel like there’s a more efficient way to learning this. During this stage, I think having more than the driving questions to answer would be more useful than writing a summary of what we found. Combining these two methods will help information stick I feel. Once we finally got into groups I…

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…

Everyone knows that plants played a big part in the Columbian Exchange, but by just how much? If you were to calculate just how it changed the world the number would be innumerable, however, I can explain some of the good it did. Have it be noted that the plants exchange also had ruinous effects on the world, but that would take immense time to explain both. Let’s focus on the good and you will see just how much your everyday life, as you know it, was effected by the great plant exchange brought…