Christopher Columbus: The Columbian Exchange

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“Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorers. Not only for exploring the old worlds but the new worlds. Christopher was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451” (Christopher Columbus). Columbus went to the sea at a very young age. “Christopher father Domenico Columbus took him fishing because of his father he learned how to sail and he was an art of navigation” (Feinstein 26). Columbus travel to the Spain where he gained support from the Spanish monarchy. After sailing from Spain, the expert believe that sailing east was the best route. For Columbus sailing in the opposite direction would get them to these land faster. Christopher Columbus was an explorer and a navigator, not only that he exchange the ideas by swapping products with the European peoples. Columbus was a European traders as well by remarking the Indians to the land.
Christopher Columbus was the explorer who sailed across the Atlantic from the Spain hoping to find new route. On his first voyage the route was long and arduous where difficult to avoid. As an explorer Columbus and his crew …show more content…

There are many European explorers that settled in the Americas that brought change to the lives of Indian with the two groups that came into contact. For a while the Indian have to do whatever was demanded them to do by the European. Meanwhile Columbus exploits in the Americas tremendous change in thinking of many Europeans. “Later in 1492, Catholic Church had powerful grip over Europe. But later on many people begin to question about the religious so the religious thinkers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, attacked corrupt practices of the Catholic Church” (Feinstein 91). Columbus Exchange had such a great impact on different countries that are long term effects and not only that Columbus discovery of the land would change the history of Europe and other places like Americas and