How Did The Columbian Exchange Change Europe

Jacqueline Cuevas

HIST 106

Monday 4-6:40

Exam #1- Part I

Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange depicts a time period of rapid growing global connections in the sixteenth century. These global connections brought forth “the movement of people, plants, animals, goods, cultures, and diseases” from the new world to the old world, and from the old world to the new world (455). North America, South America, Africa, and Europe all received much pleasure in exchanging these various amount of goods. The New World brought the Old World: corn, potatoes, beans, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocados, chili peppers, pineapples, cocoa, and tobacco. As noted, this exchanging of foods indeed shaped today’s most iconic cuisines. If it were not for the Columbian Exchange, America would not have it’s renowned, Hamburger. However, the Columbian Exchange not only brought great joy to the bellies of many populations, but to their dismay it also brought new widespread diseases. A great percentage of the pre-Columbian population of the Americas died from communicable diseases such as smallpox, cholera, influenza, typhoid, measles, etc. The image in this section, demonstrates the Colombian Exchange in its totality.

Why did leaders like Martin Luther and John Calvin succeed where previous movements to reform Christianity in the West had failed? How did the Roman Catholic Church respond to the Reformation and work to promote itself during this era? The Protestant Reformation was a sixteenth century religious movement that attempted to reform and diminish the powers of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, but that later created another branch of religion, Protestantism. The Reformation not only changed how individuals viewed religion in Europe, but also caused political upheaval. The Reformation led to a series of religious wars that became known as the Thirty Years War. This war caused a great percentage of death within