1492 - The discovery of America (the Americas)
Causes
Consequences
Slave serch
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Disease and death
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They wanted America's gold
Need to find natural resources for exploitation
The serch for territories for raw material
Europeans needs more natural resources on their country, so they took advantage of America's resources.
Celebrating Columbus day
Minuses
Pluses
It gave the Old World an opportunity to colonize and expand.
Columbus changed the ecosystem of the Americas for the worse.
He was a brutal governor.
Columbus used his travels to enter the slave-trading market.
It improved food economies across three continents.
He introduced new ways of thinking to the New World.
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Europe needed money
New Religions
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Columbus still forcibly indoctrinated people into his faith.
Journeys that Columbus did caused diseases spread around the world faster
The Columbian Exchange introduced more than just cash crops and livestock.
Conmmemorates a proccess of invation and death of innocents
Columbus improved food security for the Old World and the New World.
Columbus introduced concepts of modern spirituality during his voyages.
Commemorates the landing of christopher columbus in the Americas in 1492
Livestock introductions occurred in the New World because of Columbus.
The development of the African slave trade
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-Impose spanish as the nativo language
-Appearance of new customs and habits
-increase in trade
-Increase of the trade due to the introduction of new planta
In the branch of the agriculture.
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The discovery of foods stuffs
Confrontations
Need for new trade routes
New ways of governing
Need for expansion to other territories.
Unveiling of the world map
the exchange and sharing of cultures
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Development of the economy
New naval technology
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take the Catholic religion where it wasn't practiced
the Spanish arrived with new species of animals
the search for riches and social advancement
promotes interculturality
This celebration generated controversy among some cities