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In 1942 Christopher Columbus set sail from spain in an effort to find a western root to the East Indies. After ten weeks of sailing he finally found land. He landed on the modern day nations of the Dominican republic and Haiti but he called the island Hispaniola. On the island he found the native population, he called them indians because the thought he had reached asia. The native believed that he was divine.The natives welcomed Columbus and his men onto their island but Columbus was only drive by greed. Columbus sent a letter back to spain over exaggerating the amount of resources on the island. Soon after the message was sent spain started to build their first colony in the new world and Columbus was the governor. Life for the natives got a lot worse as columbus saw them as lower beings. He enslaved them, forcing them to mine for gold with awful living conditions,little to no food, unsanitary water, and he even sent boat fulls of the natives back to spain. Many more spanish ships came introducing many new diseases and animals. Within a short period of time only ten percent of the native population was still alive. This sharp decrease in the native population was due to old world diseases like Smallpox, Measles, Malaria,Yellow fever, Influenza, and Chickenpox. The spanish …show more content…

His discovery of the “Far East” ushered in a new era, “ The Age of Discovery”. This era had many positive impacts. The introduction of new foods gave the Europeans more nutritious and flavorful foods.One of the only positive impacts for the natives was the new meat food sourced from cows pigs and chickens. The natives were impacted way more in a negative aspect than the European. Eight million natives died from warfare. And entire tribes wiped out by European disease. Over all, contact between the old world and the new world was much more beneficial for the old world, specifically

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When Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas he had the plan to sail through the Indian river to get to Asia, but because you aren't able to sail through America to get to Asia he ended up in Hispaniola an island in the Caribbean. In my opinion, I think that Columbus set sail to Asia but ended up in Hispaniola In the beginning the Hispaniola were very kind to the Spaniard, but after a while the Spaniard started to take over their land and eventually killed most of the Hispaniola population and sold the rest as slaves. I say this because In document B (the letter) Christopher Columbus had said that “I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King...no one making any resistance. This shows that Christopher Columbus had taken over

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On October 12, 1492, an Italian merchant by the name of Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the New World. With him he brought three ships and a small crew of Spaniards. After exploring other islands, Columbus came one that he called Hispaniola; here, they found seemingly primitive and naϊve natives that they immediately began to take advantage of. However, little did they know that this first meeting would bring exploration of South and Central America that would wreak havok among the Natives. Throughout the period of European Expansion, Natives were ripped from their home and forced to work day in and day out.

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Instead of finding the Indies he finds the “New World” and creates a settlement of his own and starts to do terrible things. This can be taken as Christopher Columbus being greedy and self righteous than being an explorer for Spain. Christopher Columbus should be considered as a pirate instead of an explorer. Christopher is more of a pirate than explorer is that he became the ruler of the new land he found and was very unfair to the natives and his people.

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The Europeans were introduced to the New World in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. Columbus was sailing to find a new trade route to Asia,to spread religion & for glory. It impacted both the New and the Old Wolrd in many ways. The Europeans found new land to take over and the Native Americans in the New World were introduced to diseases, and many of their cultures were

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Six months after his return to Spain, Christopher Columbus made another voyage. He finds Hispaniola (his first settlement) destroyed, so he leaves his brothers and 500 native to fix and run the land. Then leaves on another fruitless search for valuables, such as gold, silver, pearls, spices, and silk. Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad and the South American mainland before returning to the doomed Hispaniola settlement, where the colonists had staged a revolt against Columbus’s brothers’ ruling and brutality.

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On his fourth voyage Columbus set out in search of a strait to the Indian Ocean. He set sail out of Cadiz in May of 1502 with four ships. He finally reached land in August of 1502 on what today would be Honduras and spent months exploring the country of Honduras, and other countries such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. It took him two years before he finally reached home in

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In the Age of Exploration, the Columbian Exchange was created between Europe and the Americas as a massive exchange of plants, animals, and diseases. In document 2, the Columbian Exchange is depicted, and a main part of it shows how many diseases– smallpox, measles, and typhus– were brought by Europe to the Americas. In The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, Miguel Léon-Portilla claims that diseases struck "everywhere in the city and kill[ed] a vast number of... people" (Document 7). The illnesses caused many sores to appear on peoples' faces and bodies. Some people could not walk or move as they were helpless and cried in agony.

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Among the new technologies they brought included sailing ships, wheeled vehicles, firearms, iron technology, and more. The New World was also introduced to horses and other domesticated animals that improved farming. In addition, ancient American items traveled to the Old World. Europeans were exposed for the first time to New World foods like potatoes and corn, which became European staples. The Old World also benefitted because they were able to establish ports and plantations on fertile New World grounds to facilitate exchange and production of goods.

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Christopher Columbus was a Spanish Italian navigator who sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean on search of a shorter route to Asia. He did reach land but not in Asia, what we know now to be North America and the Caribbean. Even though Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, his sea travels brought him to Lisbon, Portugal, where he settled with his married brother around 1479.

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Christopher Columbus, was an Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, in hopes to find a route to Asia but instead he found Guanahani Island; an island in the Bahamas; discovering the New World, and changing history forever. During 1400’s Europe was going through the renaissance, the Black Death was finally over and society was starting to progress. Trade and exploration was starting to progress. People were beginning to explore the coasts of Africa and at the end of this time, the Americas.

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All of the trading caused an extremely negative impact on the Americas. All of the new diseases that were introduced cause major problems for the natives there. The native Americans welcomed the invaders with open arms because they were unaware of the diseases they carried. Due to their tolerance for the diseases they brought, the Europeans did not give much thought to or concern about the risks they posed to the locals. Nearly over 90% of Native Americans perished due to the smallpox, influenza, and other virus

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Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas in the year of 1492 affected the Native Americans both positively and negatively. One positive impact was transforming their lives into a highly mobile one. Nevertheless, its negative impact affected the Native Americans dramatically; it initiated the decline of the Native American population. Along with the rediscovery of the Americas, Columbus established the Columbian exchange, which introduced several new things to the Americas.

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Throughout the late 1400’s and the 1500’s, the world experienced many changes due to the discoveries of new lands and peoples that had been never been visited before. The new-found lands of the Americas and exploration of Africa by the Europeans led to new colonies and discoveries in both areas. It also brought different societies and cultures together that had never before communicated, causing conflict in many of these places. While the Europeans treated both the Native Americans and West Africans as inferior people, the early effects they had on the Native Americans were much worse. Beginning in the late 1400’s, many different European explorers started to look for new trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere in order to gain economic and religious power.

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Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in 1492, he hoped to reach eastern Asia. He thought he had reached Asia when he landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea. In fact he had opened up to Europeans a new world with two continents—North America and South America—and many islands.

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Columbus was immediately welcome by the Indians, but little did they know that they were about to be use. Columbus would round them all up as prisoners and take them back to England. Ultimately, they were sold as slaves for the country. This shows that Columbus took advantages of their kindness and use it for his self-benefits. Even if the Indians decided to fight back, they were overwhelm by the soldiers’ armor, muskets, and swords.

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