How Environment Connects the World

One of the most memorable events to happen in history is the era of exploration and globalization. It would lead to many undiscovered countries and the connection that was made between Europe. Exploration had begun in 1400, which was mainly lead by China, who brought much of the technology and knowledge we needed to know in order to travel safely. The variety of tools included float compasses, giving people knowledge of the ocean they travel on. Zheng He, was able to create a trading fleet, which went many miles. Due to this, China itself was the main trading center for Europe and the many success it faced was from many explorers who invented advanced technology to help them adapt to the environment at sea. However, as much as the Chinese had contributed to exploration worldwide, it stopped, since it began to focus on domestic issues. This means Europeans took the advantage to explore for their own. Many of their explorations were influenced by the technology made by the Chinese. Much of their success mainly came from the wind, which determined where they would go. In order to gain accuracy and experience of where they would go, it took much training in order to not get lost and sail the other direction. This lead to the knowledge of wind, the environment, and geography, which played a major role in discoveries. This lead to the Portuguese in discovering and travelling to parts of Africa. Christopher Columbus had the advantage of being born in Genoa, which gave him the chance to become a sailor at a young age. Going on a voyage to India, he followed trade winds, but not knowingly, lead him to the Americas, in which he reached in 1492. Through that, they managed to discover the Americas, which would later lead to more discoveries and interactions. However, many of the problems that would affect the indigenous people negatively would be how Europeans brought diseases with them, and since the indigenous had low immune systems, would kill most of them. As time would proceed, the amount of positive and negative consequences were faced as exploration expanded.