Chapter #1-Blog #3: Explain the changes and conflicts that occurred when the diverse worlds of Europe, Africa, and the Americas collided after 1492.

The Spanish wanted to explore the Americas because of gold. And when the Europeans and Americas collided the Europeans ended up colonizing the Americas and expanded through North America. The Europeans change the agriculture, religion, and the architecture. The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World. Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World in 1492 is what sparked this revolution hence the name “Columbian” Exchange. The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every culture around the world. New diseases brought to the New World by the Europeans killed off many populations because the Indians had no immunity to diseases such as smallpox.