The extent of the impact of European explorers' contact is absolutely astonishing. Their actions have shaped not only the present day lives of people in Europe and the Americas, but the entire world. The migration of peoples from Europe to the New World resulted in tremendous biological changes in the natural world. European contact with the Americas also resulted in many economic, social, and political changes that both benefited and harmed the lives of all Europeans.
Settlers in the New World launched an agricultural revolution that dramatically affected the European economy. Migrants wa…
