The Lasting Effects of the Columbian Exchange During the Age of Discove

The Lasting Effects of the Columbian win over During the era of DiscoveryIt should no longer come as either great surprise that capital of Ohio was not the first to discover the Americas--Carthaginians, Vikings, and veritable(a) St. Brendan may have set foot on the Western cerebral hemisphere long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. But none of these sequential contacts made the impact that Columbus did. Columbus and company were bound to contract more than the benefits of Christianity and double entry bookkeeping to America. His voyages started the Columbian Exchange, a hemispherical swap of peoples, plants, animals and diseases that transformed not only the world he had find merely also the one he had left.The Old and New Worlds had been disjunct for millions of years before this voyage (except for periodic reconnections in the far northward during the Ice Ages). This period of separation resulted in great species divergence and evolvement. in that location were sti ll many similar species, such as deer and elm, but Europe had nothing like hummingbirds, rattlesnakes, and hickory and pecan trees. The differences were even great in the southern hemispheres the biggest mammal in Africa was the elephant, and the biggest mammal in second America was the cow-sized tapir. Both of these environmental systems struggled for a delicate sense of isotropy and homeostasis-- but their meeting in 1492 began a whole new condemnation of competition and struggle for dominance. The environmental impact of such a collision is enormous and should be looked at as part of our understanding of the Age of Discovery.PLANTSThomas Jefferson once said that, The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. By this standard, Col... ...opened new windows to science and to all knowledge. The results of the Columbian Exchange come with coalesce feelings, owing to the degree of death and slavery that such a strike of n atures caused. But whatever the outcome of the two worlds re-uniting, the Exchange was a major event in the process of discovery.Suggested ReadingsCrosby, Alfred W. The Columbus Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians Essays on spheric and ComparitiveHistory. Washington, D.C.American Historical Association,1987.---. The Voyages of Columbus A Turning Point in World History. Bloomington, IN ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 1989.Patrick, John J. Columbus in the Curriculum Ideas andResources for Teachers of History in Elementary and SecondarySchools. multinational Journal of Social Education. 7.1