Age of Discovery ( inspired from Happy Columbus Day! Thread)

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Christopher Columbus ushered in a new era for Europeans as a result of his voyages to the Americas in the 1490s. This era, known today as the Age of Discovery, began with Columbus' voyages and closed in the eighteenth century. It brought about the Columbian Exchange http://abcnews.go.com/International...-americas-transformed-world/story?id=20321543, the Age of Imperialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism and the beginnings of globalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery.

Say what you want about the man, but his life did usher in the beginnings of the modern world.
 

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He probably ate too much garlic :p
 

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The Columbian Exchange greatly effected the agriculture of our planet, as things from the Americas were brought back to Europe and other things were taken from Europe and took root in the New World. This link will go into this Exchange in a little more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange.
 

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