Expansion and Consequences: Crash Course European History #5

European exploration had a lot of side effects. When the Old World and the New World began to interact, people, wealth, food, animals, and disease began to flow in both directions. In the New World, countless millions were killed by smallpox, measles, and other Old World diseases. Old World animals changed life in the New World irrevocably, and the extraction of wealth and resources from the Americas ultimately contributed to the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade. So, it was an exchange with a lot of downside, especially for non-Europeans.

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Pringle, Heather. “Sugar Masters in the New World,” Smithsonian Magazine, January 12, 2010,
Seijas, Tatiana. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chos to Indians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Smith, Bonnie G. Women in World History from 1450. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization. 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009.

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You might like to know that John Cabot and Cristopher Columbus real names were Giovanni Caboto and Cristoforo Colombo. Still a lot of italian explorer got translated in this period

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Little known fact is that Spain as a kingdom (not to say its population) didn't actually profit that much from the conquest: its ruling dynasty (the Habsburgs) squandered almost all of it in an absurdly outdated, expensive and imperialist foreign policy and armies (mostly warring Protestant countries to defend/recover lands for Catholicism); the gold and silver created massive inflation and a low stimulus towards the development of trade and manufacture, the basis of any prosperous modern economy. It ended up being a curse in disguise.

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8:00 name translations were common back them. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) and Christopher Colombus (Cristoforo Colombo) were their names in Italian. We don't translate names anymore, João Verde.

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