Columbus Day

The Columbian Exchange is the movement of people, animals, plants, technology, and ideas. Christopher Columbus inadvertently began this movement when he landed in the Americas in 1492. Europe became extremely powerful in the world during the Columbian Exchange. The primary positive effect was an increased food supply and increased nutrients in both populations. Europe may have benefited more because potatoes and corn were introduced in the continent causing an improved diet and lower food costs.…

The Catholic Church has been a big influential force in the Latin America. It influence can be found since the beginning when Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. On the first island that they landed, Hispaniola or now Haiti/Dominican Republic, was were the church started to spread its influences. Among their priorities, the first of Church was stablish in the new continent. The other priority was to be a conscience to the “conquistadores” or conquerors about fair treatment of the…

Vasco Nunez de Balboa Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He was born in Spain in 1475.Vasco Nunez de Balboa is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming one of the best Spanish explorers. When Balboa heard that the news of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the New World, he decided to make his first voyage to the Americas. So Balboa joined an expedition to South America. He explored Columbia and the…

THESIS OF THE AUTHOR: A Kingdom Strange uncovers the mysterious story from England's early explorations into the New World. In the novel, James Horn writes a detailed account of the lost colony, Roanoke. Thoroughly researched, Horn’s novel sheds new light on the colony’s social backgrounds of the settlers, and he offers a theory about what could have happened. A Kingdom Strange provides a vivid, detailed account of the historical facts many don’t know about. While combining historical facts…

author and with his marvelous talents, he would take you back in time and put you, “face to face with Abraham Lincoln, dancer Martha Graham, or Chinese philosopher Confucious” (Library Point, n. d.). Many generations of people grew up learning that Columbus was the first in the Americas’, but this book justifies us otherwise. The book Who was First? Discovering the Americas is a non-fictional book that gives you scientists’ research that could conceivably validate who was first in the…

states, “The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. Beginning after Columbus' discovery in 1492 the exchange lasted throughout the years of expansion and discovery.” The reasons behind the continuities of the voyages of discovery is based on the transformation and idealism behind the new and prosperous land that held so…

The venture to establish a colony at Jamestown was designed by the Virginia Company of London, which was organized and financed the colony, that wanted its business model to extract profits from the gold, silver, and other riches supposedly to be found in that region of North America. Also, no one knew the gigantic North American continent yet, the company soon expected to find a trade route by river through Virginia to the Pacific (Price, pg 1). This method was active eight months earlier. The…

In both primary documents Jean de Brébeuf’s Advice to Jesuit Missionaries in New France and the Spanish Monarchy’s Requerimiento describes the interactions and intentions on how to handle the Natives. The philosophies on how both to viewed the Native’s existing culture and traditions were vastly different. The French integrated and created alliances rather than the Spanish which segregated themselves from Native’s different cultures, threatened and extracted resources. The document…

religious ideas. Explorers are quick to convert these locals to Christianity, ignoring their beliefs. Christopher Columbus believes he voyaged across the atlantic “to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith” (Columbus 1). After discovering the Natives, Columbus stays true to his beliefs, “It appears to me...that they’d...become Christians”(Columbus 6). After the discovery of America, Bartolome de Las Casas comes to the defense of the Natives and their…

Columbus begins a journey to find gold with little knowledge of where the gold actually is located. He begins his journey to Asia, where the gold is said to be located. Columbus is ill equipped for his long journey across the unknown seas. The Indians know as the Arawak Indians, and they were described as being naked, and full of wonder. They came out from their villages and greeted the travelers with open arms and gifts. Arawak seemed selfless and very willing to share whatever they owned.…