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• 3 August 1492, making a brief stop in the Canary Islands for provisions and ship repairs, before commencing the 5-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. On 12 October, Columbus and his crew made landfall in what is now the Bahamas on an island that the native people called Guanahani,
• ultimately took on greater significance in the profound cultural, colonial, economic, nationalist, and labor consequences.
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• horses, cattle, pigs, chickens – were introduced to the New World for purposes of food and transportation.
• The crops brought to the Americas by the Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s served to satisfy European demands to recreate their traditional diets but would also disrupt New World agricultural systems.

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