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The Columbian Exchange is named such because it all started when Columbus mistakenly landed in the Caribbean in 1492 (also the year the Columbian exchange is noted for starting). It is also referred to as triangular trade (sugar/agriculture from Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and slaves from Africa to the Americas).
Throughout history, trade has been used to import materials from Europe to the Americas. For instance, sugar, wood, and coal was imported to the Americas.
the Old World and the New World Europe and the Americas
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We would not be be here today living the way we are living now. Had Columbus not journeyed to the US, America would have stayed wild and uncivilized, probably full of Indian tribes. In turn, Europe would have rotted and decayed due to its political and economical conflicts.
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
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Columbus was trying to get to Asia by sailing west from Europe, but he ended up reaching the Americas instead in 1492.
Marco Polo because he journeyed from Europe to Asia in year 1271 - 95 while Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
Amerigo Vespucci did not find the Americas (giant landmass located between Europe and Asia). Christopher Columbus founded the Americas, but Vespucci made it known that this was in fact a new landmass and not Asia, as Columbus previously thought.
There were a number of diseases that followed Spanish colonization of the Americas, one of the most devastating of which was small pox. Whether this came with Columbus or later is not known. Conversely, many believe that Columbus' crew brought syphilis back to Europe on their return from the Americas.
He discovered Newfoundland 500 years before Christopher Columbus. That makes him the person who discovered the Americas.
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He wanted to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas.
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