Christopher Columbus made a widespread journey from the Italian Seaport of Genoa in 1451 and made a major impact on the world and how it is shaped today. Columbus originally never knew he had reached an unknown continent and thought he was nearing Japan, trying to find passages. The Italian explorer ended up bringing violent diseases along with him that ended up killing countless people and populations. On the bright side, Columbus introduced new crops and technologies. Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas changed significant cultures and sculpted parts of where the world is today. Christopher Columbus’s historic travels from Spain to the Americas began the Columbian exchange. In 1451 the Italian native exited Spain and shored off to sea before entering an unknown destination, the Americas. Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. Columbus was an Italian explorer exploring the “New World”. Through his exploration, Columbus unintentionally facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. When Columbus began his historic voyage, he initially set sail for the passages of Asia, where he did not arrive. Christopher Columbus unexpectedly …show more content…
In the transfer, along came many diseases which led to a major decrease in populations. One significant effect was the introduction and transfer of illnesses like influenza, measles, and smallpox to Native American communities in the Americas, which resulted in fatalities and an intense decrease in their population. “The peoples of the Americas previously had no exposure to European and African diseases and little or no immunity.” This eventually led to a major dropoff in population all over the “New World” because people had not experienced these newly discovered diseases. The Columbian Exchange had just as many, if not more, negatives as