Christopher Columbus sailed west in 1492 to find a faster trade route to Asia, but his exploration and discovery of the New World would not have been possible without previous explorers, the growth of the Ottoman Empire, and the Renaissance. The discovery of the New World allowed European history to alter its path and change its economic exchanges. Although Columbus’s exploration failed its initial purpose, it altered the worlds path for history and was influenced by previous explorers. Christopher Columbus was influenced by different events before his voyage in 1492. Zheng He, an explorer in the early 1400s, influenced Columbus’s expedition because of his huge ships that he used to find faster trade routes around Asia. He founded many different trade routes and influenced many other explorers to find new routes of their own.
Another influence was the growth of the Ottoman Empire. Mehmed the Conqueror acquired a lot of new land for the Ottoman Empire, allowing it to grow more and more. The Fall of Constantinople was influenced by the growth of the Ottoman Empire. The Fall of Constantinople was an event of when European Christians were worried that the Ottoman Empire would Concore their land. The Fall of Constantinople was an event that lead to the Renaissance and would impact European history.
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Christopher Columbus’s discovery allowed Europe to trade goods that was never seen or used before and also provide the indigenous people with goods they have never used or seen before. This made European countries more profitable and the more land they acquired, the more powerful they were. Unfortunately, not all of the alter of future history is good. With the discovery of the New World, not only were things traded from Europe and the New World, but people from Africa were traded as well. This would be known as the Columbian