Question

"By 1500, Indians in North America had settled the continent, transformed its landscape, and created hundreds of diverse societies capable of adapting to political, social and environmental change." With the advent of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, this Native American world was severely disrupted and perhaps 80%of the pre-columbian population died through disease and violence.
Your lesson reflection should offer a summary of the above content of the lesson and also offer some personal reflection on what you learned in the completion of this lesson. Your lesson reflection should try to make larger conclusions and judgments about the lesson. They should be more than a simple re-statement of the summary.
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Answer 1

Columbus's travels brought together persons of distinct cultures. One of the outcomes was the introduction of new foodstuffs. Foodstuffs introduced to the New World by the European explorers consisted of barley, wheat, sugarcane, bananas & olives. The natives introduced the Europeans to foodstuffs like potatoes, maize, cocoa, tomatoes, & chili peppers. Columbus utilized wine barrels as ballast, salting methodologies were so good that well stored meat could last as long as forty years.

Obviously, Columbus's travels had a greater effect on the Indians than the introduction of new plants & foodstuffs. Europeans also introduced new illnesses, that had a devastating impact on the Indian populace. The dramatic reduction in the numbers of Indians resulted in cultural changes, social rearrangement & ecological impacts that will be of interest to environmentally aware pupils today.

South & North America are usually called the ‘New World’ as the great explorers of Europe were the first ones to explore it. The fact , however, is that indigenous persons of the Americas had been here much before the so-called New World was ‘located.’ They had developed vivid cultures which were usually ruined by the newcomer Europeans. The utilization of the terminology "New World," thus, is a rather Euro-centric view of the discovery of the Americas