Pros Opened up the Americas to European colonization Expeditions set in motion the widespread transfer of people, plants, animals,

s, diseases, and cultures Horse from Europe allowed Native American tribes to shift from nomadic to a hunting lifest le! "oods from the Americas increased populations and became main foods #tomatoes, potatoes, corn$ %heat from Europe became main source of food for people in the Americas Coffee and sugar cane from Asia became ma&or cash crops for 'atin American countries

Cons (estruction of the native peoples of the lands he explored )rought diseases *mall pox from Old %orld led to the decrease of population from millions of Native American to fractions of their original numbers Culture of Native Americans changed and lost (estro ed Native American civilizations through cruelt and disease #+,- million to less than . million$ /housands of African slaves brought against their own will for barbaric labor in mines and on plantations

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Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus2 vo ages did not have a positive effect on world histor ! Although his expeditions did set in motion the widespread transfer of people, plants, animals, and cultures, it also caused the spread of disease and led to man other problems! *mall pox from the Old %orld was brought to the Americas, decreasing the population of Native American from +,- million to less than . million! "urthermore, these expeditions caused the cultures of Native Americans to change and be lost, one reason being because he forced them to convert to Christianit , using violence! Another reason wh Columbus2 vo ages had a negative impact on world histor was because of its impact on slave trade! Columbus and his men forced man natives to be slaves and treated them with extreme violence and brutalit ! He sent thousands of peaceful /aino 34ndians5 to *pain to become slaves, but man died on the wa there! /he ones who weren2t sent to *pain were forced to loo6 for gold in mines and plantations! /he wor6ed until the died of exhaustion, causing the population of the /aino to drop, from 789,999 to a few hundred, within :9 ears after Columbus landed! Christopher Columbus should be tried for crimes against humanit ! He enslaved natives because the seemed 3peaceful5 and he treated them violentl , despite the fact that the were peaceful and listened to his orders! He forced them to wor6 until the died of exhaustion and he also supervised the selling of native girls into sexual slaver , where girls the age ;,.9 were 3in demand5! 'astl , in .8.-, the 4ndians were forced to follow 3the 1e<uirement5, which forced them to accept the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world! 4f the didn2t follow 3the 1e<uirement5, the were threatened, sa ing that the , their wives, and their children would all become slaves, and that the would do all the harm and damage the could to them! 4n conclusion, Christopher Columbus was not a hero and we should reconsider Columbus (a being a national holida !