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Explored the New World

Published on Apr 21, 2016

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By Steewalds, Chen-Yao, Yongyi

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  • For Columbus' great initiative, more and more Europeans came to the New World.
  • They brought a variety of foods and weapons with their culture.

The Bread

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The tea

The shoes

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The guns

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The handguns

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  • The immigrants of U.S. include California are most from Europe.
  • Both sides have the similar culture.

Explored the New World

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  • Columbus was born in 1450 in Italy.
  • Marco Polo, an Italian explorer, was born in 1245. He visited China 4 times via land and Pacific.
  • He supprised that China was rich and had a lot of wonderful products.

The porcelain

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The teapots

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The silk clothes

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The silk scarves

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The hand embroidery

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He was assigned a minister by Emperor to deliver an letter to the Pope

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  • He brought a lot of goods to Europe, such as silk, porcelain, tea, etc.
  • It made the Europeans began to know China.

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  • He wrote a book, named Marco Polo Blogs. It introduced the detail situation of China, that caused a sensation in Europe.

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  • Columbus read this book repeatedly when he was young. It affected him very deeply and made he had been dreaming to China and India.

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  • A part of European culture was from China. Although Chinese culture was developed early than the world, but China took the close-door policy for recent hundreds years. It caused of poverty and backwardness.
  • Fortunately, China has taken the reform and open-policy, going on the reviving path now.

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