The voyages of Christopher Columbus changed history because he led Europe west. In 1492 he landed in the Carribean and made contact with the new world. However, he did not realize this was a new world he thought he was in Asia. He made four voyages in all.
Soon many other nations of Europe began to send ships west. This started what we call in history the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange is when Europeans brought plants, animals, ideas, disease and other goods that were not in America before. And they took back to Europe the plants, animals that were only in the new world before.
The people of the new world and the people of Europe, Asia and Africa would never be the same. Either would the people of the new world, soon European nations would be fighting over the right to colonize in the new world. The native people of the new world would be devastated and the culture would struggle to survive.
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