Kira+Turner

KIra Turner Period 7 2/21/11 Was the Columbian Exchange a good thing? When people talk about the Columbian Exchange and Christopher Columbus finding the new world, they normally have mixed emotions. Over all most people would say it is a good thing that needed to happen. If Columbus hadn’t discovered the new world many of the things in life would have changed. There would not have been any pumpkin pie for thanksgiving. There would be no thanksgiving to celebrate. Thanks to the Columbian Exchange there was more room for the old world to grow. The old world had gotten a little over populated. They had used all their wood in the old world and they were running out of food. All of this is needed to keep the old world life going the way it has always been going; the new world had all of the things needed and many more. The new world had corn and turkeys and most of all the new world had trees Without the Columbian Exchange the Native Americans would have never known what was out there in the world. We would not have holidays such at 4th of July of thanksgiving because those holidays are American holidays and if America was not here nether would our freedom. Most of us would live in other places, different language and school would be different. The ending on World War 1 and 2 would have been different if the United States hadn’t been brought up. Things and life as it is know would be different from what it is now. The Columbian Exchange was a good thing in my eyes. It helped us move on to bigger and better things. Yes in the Native Americans eyes we were rude killers that should not be here. They taught us how to live in this new world and I appreciate that they did. That is why I think the Columbian Exchange was a good think in many ways.