The landing of white men in the New World ultimately led to the death of 90% of the native population. Most of these deaths were a result of disease to which the natives had no immunities. However, a number of these were captured natives who were worked to death as slaves. In addition, Christopher Columbus and later explorers/conquistadors brought back much gold and silver to Spain. To dump this much currency into the economy at once causes prices to inflate for a short time, then sharply fall. This is exactly what happened to Spain. Their consequential depression removed them for a time from being considered a great power in Europe.
The deaths of 5 to 150 million Native Americans from diseases from which they had no immunities. The destruction of the cultures of an entire hemisphere's people. Slavery. Genocide. The misrepresentation of history for 500+ years.
Many things happened between the Old World and the New. The New World brought pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, wheat, oats, barley, slaves, sugarcane and many diseases such as small pox. The New World sent back potatoes, corn, tobacco, lumber and syphilis. The New World lost far more than they gained.
The consequences of Christopher Columbus' explorations were the opening to Europe of a vast new hemisphere. For Europeans, this was the beginning of a vast new world to be explored and colonized. To claim that the consequences of his explorations was the death of millions of Native Americans is illogical. Based on the logic of that premise, one could say he was responsible for the US Constitution.
Columbus has been criticized for many reason. Some are:He did not reach the Amercan continent but only discovered some islands.His discovery lead to the European invasion of America which negatively affected the life styles of the indigenous peoples.He was a Catholic and an Italian. A Catholic fraternal organization is named after him and they push for holding parades and celebrating Columbus Day in his honor. Years ago, there was a large immigration of poor Italian and Irish Catholics and people feared them and their religion. Columbus was associated with them.
Some Native Americans, among many other Americans today, have shown resentment towards Christopher Columbus (and any glorifications of him) simply because of the tremendous suffering experienced by Natives since Columbus discovered the New World for Europe. While the discoveries of Columbus have led to many positives, it is also undeniable that negatives have occurred, as well, particularly for the Native peoples whose cultures were destroyed as European settlers gradually took over the New World once it was discovered.
The immediate outcome of Columbus' voyage was religious freedom, the long-term outcome was finding the Americas
It is difficult to account for the direct and indirect consequences of Christophe Columbus' arrival in the New World. Some sources cite him as being directly responsible for the deaths of up to a million people, with many more after that due to the introduction of diseases.
the conclusion that Vespucci had formed about the lands that he, Columbus, and Cabato had reached is that the land he, Columbus, and cabato had reached was not Asia. The land that they had found had to be another Continent.....the "new world" that some Europeans thought might be there.
Christopher Columbus was actually hired to find a way to India from the west instead of the east. Knowing the world was round, when he came across America he presumed it to be Asia. (Why native Americans are known as Indians.)
Columbus has been criticized for many reason. Some are:He did not reach the Amercan continent but only discovered some islands.His discovery lead to the European invasion of America which negatively affected the life styles of the indigenous peoples.He was a Catholic and an Italian. A Catholic fraternal organization is named after him and they push for holding parades and celebrating Columbus Day in his honor. Years ago, there was a large immigration of poor Italian and Irish Catholics and people feared them and their religion. Columbus was associated with them.
death, less money
some of Columbus' accomplishments are discovering America, bringing new things back to Spain and being the first person to sail into the new world
Yes. First, there were people already living here. Second, there is at least some evidence of "discovery" of the Americas by Vikings, Chinese and Amerigo Vespucci.
There were Pacific bottle nose dolphins at Sea World. There were also some at the Discovery Cove in the year 2004.
Long before columbus people knew that the earth was round. They just could not measure how big it was. Based on this assumption, Columbus set sail to the west and thought that after some months he would just bump into the Indies and come back to Europe from the east. Who really did it was Magellan.
Its the corps of discovery not the corps and discovery
Some Native Americans, among many other Americans today, have shown resentment towards Christopher Columbus (and any glorifications of him) simply because of the tremendous suffering experienced by Natives since Columbus discovered the New World for Europe. While the discoveries of Columbus have led to many positives, it is also undeniable that negatives have occurred, as well, particularly for the Native peoples whose cultures were destroyed as European settlers gradually took over the New World once it was discovered.
Sir Alexander Fleming is responsible for the discovery of penicillin. It was followed by the discovery of other forms of anti-biotics. Without his discovery the development of anti-biotics would have been delayed for some time until someone else made the discovery.
The immediate outcome of Columbus' voyage was religious freedom, the long-term outcome was finding the Americas
Everything has consequences. Possibly there is some specific item whose consequences you are asking about.