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What Are The Causes Of The Columbian Exchange

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Essay #1- Some main factors that encouraged exploration had a lot to do with trade and wealth. It was very hard to feed a lot of people since many areas did not have the food supply that they needed. Also, being able to discover fasters ways of traveling different routes led exploreres to new areas of the world by sailing on more modern boats that went farther rather than the smaller boats that were around for most of the time. The rich merchant class provided money for people to travel, if they succeeded they became more wealthy, if the voyagers did not succeed they simply lost their wealth. Spaniards were religion fanatics. They ruled simply for religion. They didn’t really have a lot of involvement in commerce until cocoa and sugar become …show more content…

H e burned Jamestown and tried to get Governor Berkeley to stop the Indian attacks. I feel like because Bacon was involved with the government from the inside it made a bigger impact than it would have if he had been from somewhere else. Essay #4- This is a picture of the trade routes of the Columbian exchange. The Columbian exchange was a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the new and old worlds. Exchanges included things like plants, animals, diseases and technology. Technology transformed Europeans and native American ways of life. The exchange lasted after Columbus’ discovery through the years of expansion and discovery. The exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the Atlantic. Advancements in agricultural production, warfare, increased mortality rates and education are a few examples of the effects of the Columbian exchange for both Europeans and Native Americans. This image is really key in understanding how different goods were imported, if this trade route was never created it may have been a long time before certain areas of the world had access to certain goods and

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