The discovery of America and the historical significance of the discovery of the waterway from the Cape of Good Hope to east indies.

The discovery of America and the arrival in east indies via the Cape of Good Hope are the greatest and most important events recorded in human history.

For Europe: 1. Thought: There is no doubt that this is a brand-new world, which gives Europeans great encouragement to explore the world bravely, but also deeply shakes the traditional Catholic forces and lays a certain foundation for the later religious reform; 2. Stimulated the development of European capitalism. After the Spanish conquered the Aztec, Maya and Inca countries, gold and silver rolled in, and the Atlantic coast replaced the Mediterranean as the European trade center. 3. Politics: The feudal autocratic monarchy expanded its power and gradually broke free from the shackles of the church. Countries protect their own economic interests and business groups, which in turn stimulates economic development.

For America, the arrival of Columbus was the beginning of a nightmare, followed by a group of sailors and new animals, which almost destroyed the indigenous traditional economy (pigs were brought to the mainland from Europe, and if they were not carefully taken off, they would become wild boars in less than three generations and eat all the corn seeds of Indians), and then conquerors like Ellund leveled one Indian city after another with muskets and cannons, because of the serious damage, their civilization still had many unsolved mysteries. A large number of European immigrants arrived, and the whole United States was completely Europeanized after the westward movement of the United States.

For the world: it marks at least three major events. 1. The world began to connect as a whole. In a sense, world history has just begun; 2. The time has come when Europeans dominate the ocean. In the next few hundred years, Europeans monopolized the ocean until Japan defeated Russia in 19 15. The world market began to form, and European capitalism was like a terrible bat, so it began its journey to conquer the world.