Columbian Exchange

The start of the fifteenth century commenced an age when European Empires began to approach global exploration launching a revolutionary age of modernization. Now recognized as the Age of Exploration, this era extended between the fifteenth and seventeenth century or roughly in the years between 1418 and 1620. It is a time when Europe successfully expanded to areas in the Far East, Africa, and the Americas by the determination and nobility of European explorers, particularly Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco da Gama. Developing at the same time as the Renaissance, The Age of Exploration demonstrated many of the same results as the Renaissance, most importantly, the quest to expand religion, profit and power. Religion,profit,

This booming economic evolution emerged in efforts of expansion by the explorers of this age. Respectively, we should recognize these explores for their impact on the development of our global economy. The Columbian Exchange exhibits a great example of the economic benefits created by settlers of the Americas during the Exploration Age. The Columbian Exchange was the mass trade of minerals, food, and other goods between The Americas and Europe. From the Americas to Europe came corn, silver, and gold. From Europe to the Americas Came wheat, pigs, and weapons. Colonists constructed ranches with new farm animals in the Americas while the Americas exported extremely valued minerals to Europe. Both continents were immensely benefited with new sources of valued currency, nutritious food that would lead to population increase, and profitable land to be farmed and harvested. The Columbian Exchange greatly remodeled the economy of the New World and that of Europe. Or as said by William Duiker and Jackson Spielvogel “The ‘Columbian Exchange,’ as it is sometimes called was a process that ultimately brought benefits to all peoples.” Additionally, the Exploration Age embarked the theory of mercantilism. Mercantilism is the theory in which trade produces wealth and is reproduced by accumulation of possible balanced profits. This introduction to the mercantilist theory would be a pedestal for economic methods for the future two and a half centuries. Furthermore, The Exploration Age began the