Question

Okay, so what impact did colonization have on Western Europe's development? Or, in English, How did the colonization of America by Western Europe affect it?

Answer 1

Ya might wanna post that in History, not Math :)

Answer 2

Hahaha Probs is that no one is replying to anything in history~~~

Answer 3

ohh lol ok

Answer 4

What course is this for?

Answer 5

Do you happen to know the answer?
oh, it's for PreAP World Gepgraphy~~~

Answer 6

*geography

Answer 7

Well, im taking AP European History right now, so i can look in my textbook to see if its there.. gimme a few min

Answer 8

What century is this, do you know?

Answer 9

Oh, cool! Ok! Yeah, that would be awesome! Thanks~~~
uh, I think it's more of an overall thing...the impact it had overall

Answer 10

Idk, it doesn't say specific things in here... I think it's just the effect it had, throughout the years

Answer 11

Hmm.. ok im checking

Answer 12

Like, uh, first it was good, next it was bad, and conditions got worse for this reason, and that makes a big impact on Western Europe now bcos of _______.

Answer 13

Crap.. no sorry cant find anything :( Ill try googling it

Answer 14

Sorry, i cant find anything specific to this problem

Answer 15

:(... sigh~ I couldn't either... do you have an answer yourself that isn't neccessarily textbook based?

Answer 16

Well i guess they became a little more militarily strong, learned from their experience with the colonies in America

Answer 17

Well i'm a bit rusty but specifically colonization brought in commodities that made teh shipping industry boom

Answer 18

They did get a lot of import from the Americas and some income.. not necessarily long term

Answer 19

and commodities industry as well

Answer 20

So... military development??? and....made.. wiat, what are commodities?

Answer 21

cotton from America and Asia made the textile industry boom

Answer 22

commodities are things like spices, silver gold etc.

Answer 23

is there anything a bit more general, also? I dont remember learning this~

Answer 24

this is from APUSH :/

Answer 25

oh~ that would explain it... Anything that you could rmmbr from Pre-Push?

Answer 26

lol unfortunately not

Answer 27

hahaha i c~ I look things up on google and all it gives me are things about the impact on North America, not about the impact on Europe...

Answer 28

something extremely general is that Europe became the largest most powerful economy and military :/

Answer 29

OoO oh!

Answer 30

Well, weren't they powerful even B4?

Answer 31

b4 colonization, I mean.

Answer 32

I think that most of the econ. was in the ottoman/arab area because of the silk route

Answer 33

not a 100% sure on that though

Answer 34

?????

Answer 35

This is what I came across doing a little research online, who know how accurate it is:
Because Western Europe controlled resources and trade with their colonies, which helped them become the wealthiest (most developed) region in the world for many years.

Answer 36

oh~ so then what I'm getting from this is that Western Europe became (even more) powerful through the Columbian Exchange... which only existed bcos of the colonies~ right?

Answer 37

yeah

Answer 38

oh wait then why didnt Latin america's mother countries get rich too...? The columbbian exchange was like... (slaves from Africa, right?), Corn and other stuff from US, Spices, cclothes, from Europe, which were also bought from Asian countries, and then they also sold things and traded with Latin America, didn't they?

Answer 39

Spain and Portugal got super rich from the silver and rice plantaions

Answer 40

*silver mines

Answer 41

So then Westrn Europe WASN't(?) the biggest hotshot?Spain and Portugal got super rich because of coloniztion too?

Answer 42

Spain and Portugal are in Western Europe

Answer 43

OoO LoL im so dumb... hahaha thanks!!!

Answer 44

lol np :)