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The Columbian Exchange was a massive exchange of foods such as olives, onions, and grapes. Animals such as sheep, horses, and pigs. As well as diseases such as smallpox, between Europe and the New World. -
Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas is what opened contact for the Europeans with the Americas and the New World. -
This Treaty allowed Spain and Portugal to divide the newly discovered land between themselves. Since it was divided by the Pope, the Spanish got a lot more land than the Portuguese. -
Vasco da Gama's voyage to India opened up a direct sea route from Europe all the way to Asia, and this increased global trade drastically. -
Megallan begins his route to travel around the world. This confirmed that the world is not flat and the size of the Earth. -
Hernan Cortes has conquered the Aztecs at this point and leads the Spanish control of what we now know as Mexico. This also led to the spreading of European culture in Mexico as well as diseases. -
1532 is when the conquest started, when Pizarro began to take action to conquer the Incas- which is why this date is considered as the start of the downfall of the Inca Empire, expanding Spanish territory in South America. -
This was a trading company that was owned by the British. It marked a major European involvement in trade in Asia. -
England established Jamestown in what is now known as Virginia. This was the first permanent English colony in the New World. -
In the 17th century, Europeans demanded more labor in the Americas due to the rise in sugarcane plantations. It led millions of Africans to be forcefully taken to the New World to be enslaved.