FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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The Columbians and The Native Americans
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The Queen of England and the Spanish
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The New World and the Old World
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The Columbians and the people of Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Columbus brought back small amounts of gold as well as native birds and plants to show the richness of the continent he believed to be Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alfred coined the term “Columbian exchange” in 1972. The Columbian exchange started to connect the New and Old Worlds with the transmission of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Europeans benefited the most from the Columbian Exchange. During this time, the gold and silver of the Americas was shipped to the coffers of European treasuries, and food items from Africa and the Americas increased the life expectancy of people in Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher Columbus introduced horses, sugar plants, and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic is known as the Columbian Exchange.