Mid-term+essay

If you were Christopher Columbus, what would you do differently than the other Christopher Columbus to achieve your goals?

If I was Columbus, I would not decide to go on the voyage again and again to reach the western property to make me safe. First of all, because of I discovered the new land, I was already became famous in Spain. The goal of my voyage is gold,fame and religion. Since I back to the new land, and then the Taino people help me to find the gold. We fight against each other. However, I was more powerful than them. So I could get what I want, and came back to Spain as a hero. The things I would do differently is I would not promise the King and Queen to find more propoty and wanted to find the western land. If I made this decision like Columbus, I just out myself in dilemma because If I could not do it, I would die. Columbus was very confident and believed that he could find that. However, the result was he struggled and finally lost. I would leave some space for myself. If I really want to go on the third voyage or the forth voyage, I would not promise that I could do certain things. Everything is changeable, there are so many reasons can make you fail. So I would not stubborn like Coulmbus and leave some space for myself.

Research a SaCaI country and explain how it is still influenced by its pre-Columbian past.

Many Pre-Columbian civilizations established hallmarks which included permanent settlements, cities, agriculture, civic and monumental architecture, major earthworks, and complex societal hierarchies. The dominion republic is an example of Pre-Columnist country. The Tiano is the people who lived in the new land when Columbus came.They engaged in farming and fishing, and hunting and gathering. In 1492,Columbus discovered the new land and conquered it.Taínos had declined drastically, due to smallpox and other diseases that arrived with the European, so by 1711 the Taínos numbered just 21,000 in the Dominion Republic. Because of the many citizens forefather is Tiano, so Taino culture include their cave paintings,as well as pottery designs which are still used in the small village of in Moca. And Dominion Republic's cuisine is also influenced by Taino.Their cuisine is mainly Spanish, Taíno, and African. The typical cuisine is similar to Latin American countries. Although Pre-Columbus era already pasted many generation, some of the culture still exist in the country and uses it in their life.

Write your own question about the Columbian Exchange and answer it.

What is triangle trade,describe it and explain why it is important in the Columbian Exchange. The triangle trade is the best strategy from Europe. European get the things which they did not have freely from the United States during the Columbian exchange.Then they let the slaves which they got from America to make it into product and sell it to other countries such as China. For example, European got cotton freely from the new land, and they let native American to make it into clothes. After that, they sold it to India,China and other counties. So they could get the high profit from the trading. This is called the triangle trade, and it improved Europea's economy at that time so much. They became powerful and richer by this way. The most important is they got benefits from the Amercia and lead it into the next generation. The things they got from the Coulmbian exchange developed in the nation, even better than before. The things they got are some very popular product in European now like chocolate and coffee. The triangle trade helps Europe remedy the lack of some goods; also, they uses this to conquer the world's economy in that period of time. The benefits even exits today because when you see their famous products, some of them are from the Columbian exchange.