The Age of Exploration greatly impacted the world and led to the discovery and colonization of the Americas. The Europeans were opened up to new land and extreme wealth, while discovering the Americas. When the Europeans met with the Native Americans, both groups of people were introduced to animals and plants that they had never seen before. However, this Age of Exploration also had a negative impact on the world. While the Europeans set up colonies, they destroyed the land and the lives of the Native American people. While many aspects of the Age of Exploration had positive effects, such as the exchange of new foods and animals, there were also negative effects, such as the exchange of diseases between Europe and the Americas. Even though the discovery of the Americas was accidental, it left a major impact on the world.
Long distance trade and travel increased dramatically and the world became linked. One of the major positive impacts of the Age of Exploration was the exposure to new foods, plants, animals, ideas, and customs. This was all part of the Columbian Exchange. Cultures traveled long distances. From the Americas, tomatoes, pumpkins, squash, peppers, chocolate, tobacco, and especially corn and potatoes were introduced to the Europeans and Africans. From Europe to the Americas and Africa, wheat, melons, cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, and horses were introduced. From Africa, bananas and coconuts were introduced to the Americas, along with enslaved Africans. Cultural diffusion was the ultimate positive effect of the Age of Exploration. Christianity, the Spanish language, and farming techniques were also spread during the Age of Exploration. Because of these farming techniques and new food and plants introduced, the p...
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...o the diseases they were exposed to, but they were still treated terribly. They were forcibly moved out of their homes in Africa to become slaves in the new colonies. Africans had eventually become an important part of the Americas, because they populated the various regions of the new world. Even though worldwide trade was now taking place, colonies were forbidden by their mother countries to trade with others. Also, because there was so much money and gold in circulation because of the colonies, inflation occurred.
The Age of exploration served as a major turning point that greatly impacted the world. It was a significant time in the understanding of geography, and the establishment of colonies in the Americas. The Europeans greatly benefitted from the colonies they set up, but, unfortunately, caused major destruction and devastation to the Native Americans.
The Columbian Exchange impacted Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in many ways. Some of the major components of this exchange were plants, animals, and diseases. The Native Americans was impacted because they did not have immune systems capable of handling diseases such as; small pox, the plague, and yellow fever. This resulted in the population of Native Americans being cut by at least 90% over the course of a couple hundred years and making it easier for foreigners to come in and take over. The animal that helped the Native Americans was the horse. It helped them expand and explore places other than agricultural plains like mountains. The Europeans brought back tobacco. Tabaco then lead to many deaths because of its health issues involved with the use. They also got introduced to tomatoes which people thought for a long time was not edible. Africans acquired potatoes and maize, which became a main staple in Africa.
“As European adventurers traversed the world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries they initiated the “Columbian Exchange” of plants, animals, and diseases.”(P. 26). The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases and more modernized technology, beginning after Columbus landing in the Americas in 1492. It lasted through the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, sheep and pigs were introduced to the Americas. The Americas introduced to Europe many new crops such as potatoes, beans, squash, and maize. In time Native people learned to raise European livestock and European and Africans planted American crops. This was the positive effect of the encounter and it was largely responsible for the doubling of the world’s population in the next three hundred years. There were also many negative effects to the “Columbian Exchange” A major consequence was the spread of disease in the New World. Diseases carried by Europeans and Africans devastated the population of the Americas. As Europeans traveled through the Americas epidemics came with them. Typhus, diphtheria, malaria, influenza, cholera, and smallpox killed many of the native people. One example was
The Columbian Exchange has been called the “greatest human intervention in nature since the invention of agriculture” (Grennes 2007). The exchange of diseases, plants, and animals lead to a global cultural and economic shift throughout the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus' 'discovery' of the Americas in 1492. The Eastern Hemisphere saw an influx of raw materials, new staple crops, and the income from and production of growing crops that were too resource intensive for Europe and Asia. The Western Hemisphere saw large scale population shifts, massive devastation accompanying colonization, and a significant change in the ecosystem with the introduction of new, sometimes invasive, plants and animals. This 'exchange' had one of the largest impact on global human systems that man has ever seen.
The discovery of the Americas was the outcome of the events that occurred many years before. The religious significance of the Crusades, the humanism of the Renaissance, and the economic benefits of absolutism and the Commercial Revolution all came together to refine exploration. European influence played a large role in American history, and shaped the direction of American society today.
The European exploration had a significant impact on history. The effects were both positive and negative. Some positive impacts that the Europeans caused were the trade of crops and animals. Some negative impacts were the selling of slaves and the spread of
The consequences of European contact with the Native Americans had grave consequences surpassing the expectations of both sides. However, while the Europeans were able to overcome most of the initial problems surrounding the contact, the Native Americans endured the effects for much longer which led to the decline of Native American power in North America. Both biological effects such as the impact of diseases, and cultural effects including the formation of new societies and the European influence, had devastating effects on the lives the Native Americans had formerly known. While some of the effects of contact could be seen as positive, overall the negative effects from Native American contact with the Europeans proved to outweigh the benefits.
In 1492, Columbus landed in what is now known as the Bahamas, rediscovering the Americas. Though many believe that Columbus had a positive effect on the Americas, a vast number of negative events were caused by these voyages. Columbus and his men started the transatlantic slave trade, spread deadly diseases leading to a genocide of the native people, and directly caused major degradation of Native American culture.
Many people would be surprised that the things they associate with certain countries are not native to those lands. Sugar was not originally grown in the Caribbean and cows are not indigenous to the United States. Before the Age of Exploration, a period lasting for centuries with long-extending effects, Europeans had not truly begun to explore Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Even with the fearless adventures of the Vikings, Polynesians, and Ming Chinese, no extreme, lasting difference was created. Once people began exploring outside of their own worlds, great social, political, and economic change was ushered in with the exchange and alteration of people, plants, animals, technology, diseases, religion, and political systems.
...igions and cultures, since explorers and merchants would exchange religions and cultures. If explorers wouldn’t explore we wouldn’t have different cultures and religions we would probably have a Native American religion and Native American customs/culture. Due to all the exploring most of our Native American ancestors have mixed with people from Europe, or Africa, and this has changed the way we look ,completely, it changes our skin color, our hair, our eyes etc. Exploring has also influenced the way we talk. Last but not least, thanks to explorers, we have become more advanced. If no one would have explored anything, we’d probably still be thinking the world was flat and that we were probably the only ones living in America when actually there would be millions of people around the world surrounding us. The Age of Exploration had a huge impact on our world today.
The European influences to the Native Americans were Europeans carried the new diseases to the Indians. “Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists. Other times, they were transmitted as Indians traded with one another. The result of this contact with European germs was horrible. Sometimes whole villages perished in a short time” (Kincheloe). Slave trade was another influence to American Indians. Europeans soon realized that they could provide commercial goods such as tools and weapons to some American Indian tribes that would bring them other Indians captured in tribal wars, and these captured Indians were bought and sold as slaves. Therefore, “slavery led to warfare among tribes and too much hardship. Many tribes had to move to escape the slave trade, which destroyed some tribes completely. In time, the practice of enslaving Native peoples ended. However, it had greatly affected American Indians of the South and the Southwest” (Kinchloe). Lastly, Europeans change Native America and African’ roots. Native Americans
Exploration and Colonization impacted the native peoples in positive and negative ways. These positive and negative impacts include religion, disease, and technology. These expeditions were occurring during the time that many European nations started searching for new trade routes and started spreading their influence to many new cultures. These people had their way of life, but the Europeans thought their way was better so they pushed their ways on the natives. Some Europeans had good relations with natives, but others did not.
Technology has facilitated the transportation of a mass of people from one part of the world to another. This massive human travel, either it be the exploration, colonization, or trade of the early European nations or the contemporary infrastructure of trade, tourism, or globalization, has impacted the environment and the humans involved. This paper focuses on the era of European expansion to examine the effect of human travel on the environment and humans. The Europeans were not only responsible for the actual exploitation of natural resources in the places they discovered, but they also took diseases, new technologies, and non-native plant and animal species which had a tremendous impact on the native human population as well as the environment.
The Columbian exchange was the exchange of slaves, animals, crops, and resources. The Columbian exchange was not as serene and hygienic as explorers and Native American would have liked it. The first reason the Columbian exchange is a significant impact to the European exploration is crops. The east part of the word was growing wheat, barely, rice, and fruit (1). The west of the world was growing potatoes, tomatoes, and fruits (1). The two worlds would trade crops which each other giving the other something they didn’t have. This was not the only things they trade, livestock was also traded. The west part of the world didn’t have a lot of animals and the animals they had weren’t agriculture animals. The animals that Europe sent were horses, cattle, pigs, and sheep (1).The lifestyle of the Native American change when the horses were introduced into their life. The European didn’t send crops and livestock to the new world, they also sent disease. The Europeans sent disease that were nasty, harmful, and very contagious. The European sent disease such as smallpox, Malaria, Diphtheria, and others (1). These diseases were sent to the new world by the ships, people, and especially the pigs. These diseases killed lots of Native American in the New World and was devastating. The Columbian exchange was a great lift for the Europeans because of trade, but not so good for the Native Americans.
The European expansion into the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and 16th centuries was a great advance for most of human civilization. There are several reasons this was an advancement of the human race, such as it laid the groundwork for new politics and a more diverse economy. The expansion is also important because the migration of the Europeans into the Western hemisphere was the first of its kind. The expansion brought new people, culture and ideas. Another reason this is an advancement is that it expanded the economic system, which is important because it made more people wealthy and shifted the economy away from a feudal system. However, socially, the expansion into the Western hemisphere made the settlers develop views of superiority over the natives. In conclusion, the European expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries had many positive effects on the Europeans and its settlers, but affected natives negatively.
The Age of “Discovery”, a period that brought notable changes to regions spanning the globe, began in the 15th century. Following the end of the highly influential Renaissance period, many people in Europe developed an interest in the foreign lands of the world. This resulted in the beginning of the Age of Discovery, which was marked as the period of great global exploration and expansion. The country of Portugal fueled the start of this period. Portugal, which had been blocked from making advancements in trade in the past due to the overwhelming presence of more influential countries, spearheaded exploration during this time. After successfully taking control of regions in Africa and the Atlantic archipelagos following minor exploration expeditions,