American Republic Mid Term Part A, Question 1: The time period in which cultural exchange between Native Americans and Europeans was taking place is know as the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange altered the lives of these two vastly different cultures. They were adopting new ways of living from one another by the exchange of plants, animals, technology and diseases. Both the Native Americans and Europeans were effected in many different ways. They where able to make advancements in
Nasreen Ravat United States History Ms East 31st November, 2015 The Columbian Exchange The Columbian exchange was the broad exchange of livestock, plants, society, human populations, innovation and thoughts between the old and the new world. This occurred in the 15th and 16th centuries; this was related with the European colonization and exchange after Christopher Columbus 1492 voyage. Christopher Columbus a son of an Italian weaver from the Italian port
history that is being taught to the entire world. Christopher Columbus didn’t just sail on a heroic adventure-- there was so much more to it. Columbus was not peaceful; he was brutal and inhumane. The real events of Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Exchange would make the history being taught
stereo typical Native American you usually think of a fairly uneducated people that live in tepees. With the Cahokia that was not the case, they had giant amazing structures they had built that not only served ritual purposes but would also help tell what time of year it was according to the sky. This meant on top of building skills, they also had very strong astronomy and geometry skills. Another thing that amazed me about them was the sheer size of their civilization. The Europeans had many different
Our ‘worlds’ are very much intertwined in the sense that if Columbus had never traveled to the places that he went to, then we would have never had the Columbian Exchange which gave us things like maize, livestock, potatoes, etc. I say traveled because there were already inhabitants in the places he traveled to, therefore, he didn’t discover the places. What’s sad is Columbus never stepped foot anywhere that’s