Discuss The Causes Of The Columbian Exchange

The idea of the transformation of the economy of the world just started from the first colonization period in America. In 1492, an Italian navigator Christopher Columbus accidentally reached to America while planning to find an economically cheap way to get to India from the west because of the round shape of the Earth. Thus, he called the inhabitants “Indians”. Afterwards, the Spanish were fascinated by America’s environment, possible opportunities that could be materialized. The Spanish were very determined that they wanted to spread religion, to gain profit, and practice politics. Later on, not only the Spanish but also other people from different parts of Europe were triggered to expand America. Economic causes were the major reason that
The colonization played the greatest role on demographic change of the whole world. Because of mining gold and silver, cultivating great amount of land demanding labor, Europeans decided to import slaves from African slave ports. The rulers in Africa were selling slaves, which affected African economy and made the slave market turn to a very competitive market. Approximately “12 million” of African slaves were sold and shipped across Atlantic Ocean, which also caused racial discrimination to occur for the first time (Adas, Gilbert, Schwartz & Steans, 554). Both Africans and Europeans brought various types of diseases that led many native habitants to die because of the lower degree of immunity to such diseases. Besides diseases, with the help of immigrants a lot of different kinds of new food were discovered such as potatoes, tomatoes, pepper chili, corn, sugar, chocolate which played a significant role in the food circulation between America and Europe and alleviated the starvation for those times. Accordingly, as more animals were domesticated, people were able to produce products such as milk and meat. Among those products tobacco was the headmost in trade market because it was used as
New technologies made agriculture much easier and abundance of farms were created. The others involved in ship trading and delivered the productions across Atlantic. Technology let people advance on other economical aspects of manufacture, simultaneously, need for labor increased. From my perspective, technology is what has changed and still continues to change everything on the Earth, particularly when it comes to the history of the economy. People improved transportation with the help of innovations on technology. Since people started to go overseas to explore new lands, new food, new ways to production they became interested in education, knowledge, philosophy and larger world around them. They adopted new cultures from different scopes of their lives, and, simultaneously, brought their cultures to America. Not surprisingly, American cities and houses resemble English