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| How was Christopher Columbus inspired by Marco Polo? How did Columbus hope to reach the Indies? Who fianced his voyage? Where did Columbus actuall make landfall? Where did Columbus believe he was? |
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| Christopher Columbus was inspired by Marco Polo's Books and writing that where made more easily owned by the invention of the printing press. The King Ferdinand and Queen Isebella where the king and queen of spain and they paid for the whole voyage. The had landed on the island of San Salvador. He believed that he was in the indies and thats why everyone we saw he called Indians. |
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What was the Colombian Exchange? What were the positive and negative consequences of the Colombian Exchange? |
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| The Colombian Exchange came after Columbus came. It was the mass transfer of slaves and items that still continues today. The negative consequences of the trade are that they transfered lots of diseases from Europe. The good parts are that lots of new foods and animals where moved to the americas. |
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| In the New England Colonies there where 4 main colonies that are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Farming in the New England Colonies was very hard becasue they had long and cold winters. The colonists in the New England Colonies build their economy on small farms, shipbuilding, lumbering, fishing, and trade. The forests helped made a lot of the jobs possible, and in addition the ocean helped with fishing and shipbuilding. |
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| There where four middle colonies and they are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The landscape was different in new jersey and delaware it was rich sion and in New York and Pennsylvania it was thick wooded areas. |
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