The Columbian Exchange Between 1492 and 1750, there were many drastic demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas and Europe. The bringing of new diseases impacted both of these regions influencing their populations, affecting the Americas more when smallpox was brought by the European explorers. Also demographically was the establishment of silver mines and sugar plantations causing new labor systems directed by the Europeans. Agricultural goods also had a lasting impact with the Americas being introduced to sugar and domesticated animals as well as Europe being introduced to new crops with the Columbian Exchange. With the trading of the Columbian Exchange, diseases were increasing and affecting both the Americas and Europe.
The Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange created different impacts on the populations in the old and new world. The Columbian Exchange was the global diffusion of plants, food crops animals, human populations, and disease pathogens that took place after the voyages of exploration by Christopher Columbus and other European mariners. (Jerry H. Bentley, 2010) With the Columbian Exchange involving lands with different flora, fauna, and diseases. With the various species in the different hemispheres being evolved around separate lines, the European voyages permanently altered the world’s human geography and natural environment. Between the Americas and the Pacific islands, small pox, but measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and influenza took heavy tolls on many people.
Though there were many reasons for this movement, the economics of these new lands along with religious freedoms were two of the main reasons for migration. War and limitations on land use caused a dire need for expansion. Persecution for religious beliefs made it desirable to seek new homes to freely practice versus the active suppression. After a very costly war and a shift in demands, the English had a burning desire to obtain land. “Because of the worldwide demand for wool was growing rapidly, landowners were converting their land from fields for crops to pastures for sheep” (Brinkley, 2010).
Factory Farming: Affects and Consequences Due to human population increases and modernization, farming has changed from family run pastures and fields to industrial and mechanical factory farming. Factory farming is fast becoming the most widely used method for producing meat, eggs, and dairy for consumption all over the world. However, this method provides more negative impacts on the world than positive impacts. Factory farming negatively affects the environment, health, society, and the food animals it kills as well as pets. Solving this issue will take federal regulation and protection that extends to farming animals rather than just companion animals combined with a decrease in human animal consumption.
The Europeans who wanted control over all of Native America decided to steal the fur from animals and use it as per their own conditions. Slavery Slavery ultimate grew out of much colonization The Europeans were known for colonization and that is what they came to do in America. The colonized parts of America and took local people and sent them away to Europe to work as slaves. Slavery grew as Europe gained more control over America. The advantages are that The Europeans gave the Native American’s manufactured goods, like cloth, iron cookware, guns and tools.
After the Ming dynasty declined due to civil unrest, led to the destruction of Ming Dynasty. 3. Intentional effects of the Columbian Exchange are the following: cash-crops trade, colonization (in terms of making a home, and expanding culture), power (social status), population growth of slaves in Africa (for more slaves), forced labor, occupying land militarily, and taking advantage of diseases by allowing the Aztecs to be wiped out in Mexico. Unintentional effects of the Columbian Exchange were the diseases that occurred, and the sudden population growth due to cash crops specifically in China 4. First it was discovered by Spanish, then they began to mine it using forced labor of natives and slaves, after they had obtained
The Columbian Exchange was an era of ethnic and genetic exchanges between the New and Old Worlds that would forever change the ways of life for both. The trading of plants, and animals, along with the diseases, and new means of warfare brought to the New World by the Europeans, changed not only the lay of the land, in which the Native American’s were habituated, but also transformed the manner of life in which each people were accustomed, both for the good, and for the bad. The Columbian Exchange had severe impact on both the societal and cultural structures of both the newcomers, and the Natives. The Natives were introduced to many new advancements in technology, such as weaponry and the written alphabet, but sadly enough, they were also introduced to deadly diseases to which they had never been subjected. Since the diseases such as small pox, that were brought to the New World by the Europeans, were in large part transmitted through the air or by touch, the diseases ran rampant.
The transcontinental railroad was the means of transportation that motivated white expansionism. Included in this motivation was the desire for wealth during the gold rush, the need for increased agricultural production, and the expansionist mindset to spread beyond their homeland. The main destruction that the white expansion caused was that it killed off the buffalo, which as a hunting society, was the essential source of living for the Plains Indians. They not only relied on the buffalo as a main source of food, but they also provided warm furs and means for a
Crusades effected the English people politically, economically, and by exposing the Englishmen to new cultures. The Crusades had a significant influence in Europe in general, not just English people. At the time, the continent was united under a powerful Pope, but by the end of the 14th century, centralized bureaucracies (which have been defined as the foundation of the modern nation state) was flourishing in England, France, Spain, and other countries, due to the tyrannical dominance of the church during the Crusades. The Crusader society in the Kingdom of Jerusalem was also characterized by a culture of innovation, including political structures, governance, and taxation. The need to raise, transport, and supply the large armies led to a flourishing of trade throughout Europe.
He was not only an extremely important historical figure, but also a man who will forever be known as someone who changed the course of history. Along the way Columbus may have When Columbus “discovered” America, or what he thought was the West Indies, it opened up a wide range of plants and animals. With this he was able to create a trade route we know as the Columbian Exchange, which was when Hispaniola (Old World) and the Europe(New World) was able to exchange animals and plants. Some animals may include llamas, grey squirrels, honey bees, and chiggers. Some examples of plants will be peanuts, tomato, tobacco, chili peppers, and cassava.