American History Honors?

Question

Can someone please help me with this essay,I'm writing for my American History Honors class.Well we're suppose to write tow different essays from the following questions.
I'm not asking for anyone to do the essays for me,I love writing essays.But,I would like for ideas or introductions if you may.
so here it goes:

1)Describe the relationship between the Crusades,the Renaissance,the rise of nation states ruled by absolute monarchs,and the exploration and subsequent colonization of the New World.


(Now,in this second essay I'm halfway done i need more suggestions/ideas for the first one but if anyone will be helpful to give me ideas on this second one,that be nice as well.)

2)Describe what is meant by the "Columbian Exchange".What were the results of the meeting of the two worlds?

The problem is I don't comprehend the first one at all.

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inca-era terraces on Taquile are used to grow traditional Andean staples, such as quinua and potatoes, alongside wheat, a European import.The Columbian Exchange (also sometimes known as The Grand Exchange) has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492. Many new and different goods were exchanged between the two hemispheres of the Earth, and it began a new revolution in the Americas and in Europe. In 1492, Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New World that resulted in this ecological revolution: hence the name "Columbian" Exchange.

The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population. Maize and potatoes became very important crops in Eurasia by the 1700s. Peanuts and manioc flourished in tropical southeast Asian and west African soils that otherwise would not produce large yields or support large populations.

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Examples
This exchange of plants and animals transformed European, American, African, and Asian ways of life. Foods that had never been seen before by people became staples of their diets, as new growing regions opened up for crops. For example, before AD 1000, potatoes were not grown outside of South America. By the 1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that a diseased crop led to the devastating Irish Potato Famine. The first European import, the horse, changed the lives of many Native American tribes on the Great Plains, allowing them to shift to a nomadic lifestyle based on hunting bison on horseback. Tomato sauce, made from New World tomatoes, became an Italian trademark, while coffee from Africa and sugar cane from Asia became the main crops of extensive Latin American plantations. Also the chili / Paprika from South America was introduced in India by the Portuguese and it is today an inseparable part of Indian cuisine.

Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no paprika in Hungary, no tomatoes in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no burros in Mexico, no chile peppers in Thailand and India, no cigarettes in France and no chocolate in Switzerland. Even the dandelion was brought to America by Europeans for use as an herb.

Before regular communication had been established between the two hemispheres, the varieties of domesticated animals and infectious diseases were strikingly larger in the Old World than in the New. This led, in part, to the devastating effects of Old World diseases on Native American populations. The smallpox epidemics probably resulted in the largest death toll for Native Americans. Scarcely any society on earth remained unaffected by this global ecological exchange.

Answer 2

Mention the Crusades because the European's first truly publicity to multiculturalism that might set them and the sector on a course to globalization nonetheless in growth a millennium later. The Renaissance was once of direction an outgrowth of that multiculturalism because of re-publicity (courtesy of Islam on one in all it is well days) to among the classical texts, japanese (Islamic & Byzantine) structure, and so forth., and the New World colonization additionally being an outgrowth because of the colossal advantages encountered via lengthy distance alternate however even as being blocked from direct touch with Asia because of Muslim manipulate of the close East land routes. The applied sciences of the Renaissance allowed for the conquest and, as importantly, the exposure/promoting of the New World, a printing press no longer distinguishing with whether or not it is printing a textual content of Aristotelian ethics or a brand new map of the sector or a boat's rudder or an account of convenient gold and unfastened land in a brand new European international (just like the colonies in Outremer [French Palestine] had granted within the Crusades, which brings it circularly- among the equal financial elements sired the Crusades as sired the New World colonization]).

Answer 3

Mention the Crusades as the European's first real exposure to multiculturalism that would set them and the world on a path to globalization still in progress a millennium later. The Renaissance was of course an outgrowth of that multiculturalism due to re-exposure (courtesy of Islam on one of it's good days) to many of the classical texts, eastern (Islamic & Byzantine) architecture, etc., and the New World colonization also being an outgrowth due to the huge benefits encountered by long distance trade but at the same time being blocked from direct contact with Asia due to Muslim control of the near East land routes. The technologies of the Renaissance allowed for the conquest and, as importantly, the publicity/promotion of the New World, a printing press not distinguishing with whether it's printing a text of Aristotelian ethics or a new map of the world or a ship's rudder or an account of easy gold and free land in a new European world (like the colonies in Outremer [French Palestine] had granted in the Crusades, which brings it circularly- many of the same economic factors sired the Crusades as sired the New World colonization]).