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    Columbus and the English came along. When Columbus arrived to America in 1492 he thought he landed in India but‚ come to find out this was “The New World”. Despise his actions he had millions of innocent Native Americans killed and tortured. Do you really think he should have a holiday or should we honor the lives of the Native Americans that were killed and tortured. Christopher Columbus arrived on “The New World” in 1492. When arrived he found out that this was not where he intended to

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    King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. He received a flagship‚ the Santa Maria‚ and two smaller ships‚ the Nina and the Pinta. These ships were caravels. They had rudders‚ clinker-built hulls‚ square sails and lateen sails. His ships sailed in 1492 from Palos in Spain towards the Canary Islands. After receiving fresh supplies of water and food‚ Columbus and his ships sailed onto the Atlantic Ocean with the following winds.

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    Queen of Portugal‚ and Catherine‚ Queen of England. Isabella is famous for many important things. The most famous would be her sponsorship for Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes to find a way to get to India. In 1492‚ Isabella

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    Christina Blackwell Global History March 5 ‚ 13 The European expansion resulted in the death of millions to better the lives of the few in Europe at the time. In 1492 there was beyond an enormous amount of genocide than ever before. The Europeans invaded the land of the Native Americans and Africans took them ‚ crowded them on ships and decided that it was ok and civil. During the triangle trade though many goods were transferred so was disease ad slaves. European expansion was definitely

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    The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of plants‚ animals‚ food‚ and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492‚ when Christopher Columbus came to America‚ he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back with him to Europe. Columbus began the trade routes which had never been established between Europe and the Americas so his voyages initiated the interchange of plants between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres‚ which doubled the food crop resources available to people

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    The period of 1492-1750 opened up new worlds and old worlds to a world of growing interdependence and connectivity. This era was home to the discovery and subsequent European colonization of the Americas and the African slave trade (the diaspora) both being remarkable and profound events in world history. The interactions focused on three regions: Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas. The communication expanded the economies of all three regions while damaging social structures of Africa and

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    As a result of new contacts among Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas from 1492 to 1750‚ social and economic transformations occurred in the Atlantic world. There were several social changes that occurred in the Americas‚ Africa and Western Europe due to their contacts with the Atlantic world. These regions also underwent economic changes. By the mid-1700s‚ Western Europe was socially and economically dominating Africa and the Americas. Many social developments arose in the Americas‚ Western

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    The modern world exists in a state of cultural‚ political‚ and economic globalization. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations‚ Portugal and Spain‚ pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world’s continents‚ thus beginning the process of globalization in which we all live today. This explains the two pioneering nations‚ their motivations‚ their actions‚ and the inevitable consequences of their colonization. The

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    Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) has been a subject of much discussion among scholars‚ due to its unique history‚ cultural and intellectual achievements and values it espoused from 711 – 1492. However‚ what is usually overlooked is the contribution that Al-Andalus made to the Western world/New World and its bearing on it. As a result of which the history of this New World is viewed in isolation to that of Islamic Iberia’s and in doing so‚ the link and the movement of culture‚ ideas‚ values and knowledge

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    The Spaniards‚ the Chinese‚ and the French In the 15th century‚ Spain became the originator of the age of exploration. To begin with‚ the Renaissance had recently started and there was an eager love for culture and exploration. Art was an extremely important part of culture in Spain. Gothic art was probably one of the largest styles of art in Spain‚ this was a result of the Cistercian Order. Examples of this style of art are the monasteries of Poblet and Santes Creus and the Cathedrals of Leon‚ Burgos

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