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    History is all one big lie. There have been many misconceptions about the history that has been taught to students throughout grade, middle and high school. Most of these misconceptions include the background information over topics such are Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, Native Americans, and slavery. After reading books by authors like Howard Zinn and James Loewen it made it easier to understand how the history that has been included in textbooks is manipulated and altered by certain…

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    The discovery of America is accredited massively to European people. Through expansion, European explorers and settlers doubled the inhabited size of the world. They traded goods and animals with the Eastern Hemisphere. The Europeans established grounds on the globe, thus expanding the globe of grounds, they could all cover and trade goods. Europeans influenced much of the eastern hemisphere to trade goods. Europeans were very smart people. The goods they traded included wheat, rice, oats,…

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    Queen Izabela who was desperate to find new routes to Asia had a plan. She was the most powerful women Europe. In the summer of 1492, he was financed by Spain to find a route to Asia. He thought he could sail west to get to Asia. His voyages led lasting contact between Europe and the Americas. Christopher Columbus also started the Columbian exchange, also known as the grand exchange. This was the…

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    only trade route headed west and he had been determined to cut the Muslims out of the his was for possible trades. However, during this time Columbus had begun embracing the ideas of Ptolemy’s and the estimates he had drawn up for the size of the world. In source 4 From Ptolemy’s Geography, Ptolemy mentions that the work and calculations that he has produced are definitely accurate to a certain extent by implying, “...on account of their great size, we have as yet no knowledge; with regard to…

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    As previously said, that was a large impact on the world because of the sudden new products they could make or build. Columbus gets all the credit because of that. “He opened up America to Europe, which was the expansionist power at the time. He was the one who made it possible for them to conquer the Western Hemisphere,” (Weiner). At the time, most news traveled by word of mouth and could wildly get messed up or re-created for added emphasis. The Vikings…

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    Some citrus fruits came from a long way but ended up everywhere. Most seem to originate from Asia including southern China, northeastern India and conceivably, southeastern Asia. As of now, 2016, almost everyone knows about citrus fruits and how they change your face to either a happy, satisfied face or a poker face. This is the journey of three common citrus fruits; orange, lemon, and lime. The Columbian Exchange had a big impact on citrus fruits. Europeans and the Americas didn’t only trade…

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    When the Europeans first embarked to the New World, they were unaware of major changes that they would carry with them. Disease traveled across the sea with them causing many native people in the New World to die. With no choice, new religions and ideas were forced upon the natives influencing their daily life. By forcing new religions and ideas, it also changed their culture completely. The European explorers affected the people of the New World by exposing them to diseases, forcing religions…

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    this situation it took some time for the rest of us to see the remains of the innocent lives that were lost during this “colonization” process. Which were most of the aboriginals, and in this case the wolves being the “glorious” explorers of the new world. But what made the Christopher Columbus and the rest of the explorers more powerful then the aboriginals? To start of they had a background knowledge of science and nature the aboriginals lacked. The explorers knew what they would eventually…

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    of the world history. Not only for the fact that in 1467 he travelled to Iceland when he was sixteen years old, but also for the fact that he discovered America in 1492 at the same time as he was searching for a new trade route to the Indies. Columbus was now making the first connections between the Europeans and the Americans. Leading then to the famous “Colombians exchange” which was extensive transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology and ideas between the New word…

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    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 on by the Old World. Once the people from the Old World arrived in the New World, they introduced many crops…

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