What were the impacts of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of the New World, on both Europe and the Americas?
by Ghalia Ghuneim
1. Native Americans
1.1. Forced labor on native/local people
1.1.1. Helped European economic system
1.2. no immunity to European spread diseases
1.2.1. Measles, mumps, chickenpox, smallpox, etc.
2. Africans
2.1. Atlantic slave trade
2.1.1. Shipped slaves from Africa
2.2. African cultures/tribes lost several of their people due to the slave trade.
2.3. Africa lost at least 10 million people before the Atlantic slave trade.
3. Europeans
3.1. Began to cross Atlantic
3.1.1. Known to be one of the greatest migration in world history.
3.2. Treaty of Tordesillas
3.2.1. Spain and Portugal signed this treaty to divide the Western Hemisphere between them.