What impact did Columbus's discovery of the New World have on America and Spain?

The New World produced gold and was shipped to Spain in large quantities, thus causing Spain to gain huge benefits. Under the auspices of the Pope, Portugal and Spain signed a treaty: draw a line on the earth and then cut the earth in half like a watermelon. Portugal took the East, and Spain held America in its arms.

It was by using more than 50 strongholds from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean that Portugal monopolized the merchant shipping routes of half the world. Portugal's spice trading volume quickly increased from 220,000 pounds to 2.3 million pounds, becoming the largest maritime trade power at that time. When Spain plundered the American continent, it also brought Spanish there. Extended information

Columbus initially mistakenly thought that the place he reached on his westward voyage was India, so he called the local residents "Indians" (later, the West set the date of Columbus's first arrival in the Bahamas as October 20 Columbus Day for the Discovery of America). From the late 15th century to the early 16th century, the Italian Amerigo Vespucci inspected the coast of South America and concluded that it was not Asia but the "New World".

Later, this continent was called America after Amerigo, or America for short. After the discovery of the New World, European populations continued to migrate to the Americas, setting off the third climax in the history of human migration.

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