Christopher Columbus Research Paper

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Robert Heydolph
Mr. Jamison
World History – Honors
10/4/2014
Academic Essay How did spice change everything in the 1400s? Many European traders arose and set out to find these spices that were foreign to them and native the new land. The man that set out to find trade routes but ended up finding a revolution in the spice world, what cinnamon is and what isn’t, what was done next to further more the exploration, and spices are spread across this new land. The intension to find the spices found was not intended, but it was the accident that changed development and exploration.
Cristopher Columbus, he was sent by the Europeans to find an eastern trade route to India and Asia. The journey took about 60 days to arrive in the new land. They landed …show more content…

They soon realized that who they had in front of them were not the Indians Columbus thought he had, but what he really captured was Caribs. The Caribs were being wiped out by the Spanish at that time of history. A fleet of seventeen+ ships with a few hundred men in each. They left on September 25, 1493, and on that expedition they has the first ship that was sailed my Columbus that had all the optimism on it. They landed after a long trip to follow in Columbus’s footsteps so they can see what he saw and try to figure out what he gathered and were he got it from. As they explored one of the European explorers saw an Indian carrying ginger around his neck, and so as they went were the Indian came from they saw the roots of ginger. At that point in time they realized that what Columbus had gathered was not cinnamon but ginger. They gathered samples of all the spices and hoped to show the Indians and have them point the way to the main sources. They asked all over and received the same answer over and over” they pointed to the south-east.” In disbelief they didn’t find anything. They were soon starting to get rejected by the Indians because they didn’t want them there or too vague to admit uncertainty. As the expedition covered more land they soon started to lose hope in finding the precious metals Columbus found or anything else Columbus found or

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