Effects
Description of the effects of conquests Europeans in the era of great geographical discoveries of the volume purchased the world, diversity of the peoples and their cultures. Completely changed trade routes forward, as quickly became the most important route leading across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Decreased while the role of earlier maritime powers, inter alia: Genoa, Venice, and cities. The discovery of new lands and routes that lead to rich countries of the east and began a major expansion raging colonial Spaniards and the Portuguese and later Dutch, English and French. They further their territories also impose their authority through force. Contacts Europe with America led to a great exchange of both human and animals and plants. Europeans brought to the American continent, inter alia: the horses, while the European potatoes, corn, beans, peppers, tomatoes, and turkeys. From the east came pepper, cocoa, and coffee, which affected the change in European cuisine. Have also become the fabric of cotton or silk and Chinese porcelain. Great geographical discoveries and in particular raise the Spaniards of today's Mexico and Peru led to a significant increase in the number of bullion.