Early Modern World

The Columbian exchange created new networks of interaction from across the oceans and into different countries which came to be known as importing and exporting goods. The Europeans ruled North America and South America changing everything that the natives did to make them more modern, and how to do things the European way. Not to mention that Christopher Columbus killed hundreds of thousand actually millions of native Americans in his voyage to take over both of the American continents. Among the early modern empires, those of the western Europe were distinctive because the conquered territories lay an ocean away from their heartland. The Europeans had an advantage because they were closer than Asia and other countries in the chapter it said that the winds of the atlantic ocean blew them right to America and South America.