What is the significance of Colombus' discovery of America? What
effect did it have on Europeans? On Native Americans? On Africans?

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 14 Oct 2002 18:20 PDT

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A webbed version of Encarta's Christopher Columbus entry is here:
http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/columbus.html

The last paragraph entitled "The Columbian Legacy" has some pertinent
analysis for you. As well, a google search on
Christopher Columbus legacy
://www.google.com/search?q=%22christopher+columbus%22+legacy

turns up a large number of pages from varying points of view. The
answer to your question is a contentious one, and probably best served
by weighing a variety of opinion on the matter.

looking for an essay

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A good essay may be about why the word "discovery" is used.  How could
a continent which already had 26,000.000 very creative inhabitants be
"discovered?"  It makes it seem that 'civilization" in the New World
began in 1492 rather than having already existed here for 8,000 years.

Just a philosophical direction you might take after you have allowed a
researcher to point you to some resources for your paper.