Columbian Exchange Essay Perhaps one of the most prominent features of global expansion and exploration that occurred during the path of recorded history was the many exchanges that occurred among civilizations, where anything ranging form religious ideals, technology, to various forms of cultural diffusion occurred. Unlike previous global exchanges that occurred among civilizations before the 16th and 17th centuries, the "Columbian Exchange" as it became to be known set the standard for further consequences of …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…view their surroundings about them. No longer were the contacts and exchanges between nations the timid and based on just small exchanges of culture, such as it was with the Middle Eastern and Asian exchanges. There was a shift from isolationism to the view that the whole world was at their fingertips, waiting for commercial expansion. The Columbian exchange was a major stepping point towards a major defined world market dominated by Western political control.