Columbus's four voyages to the Americas (1492-1504) initiated the permanent contact between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that transformed both. Though not the first European to reach the Americas and never knowing he had found a new continent, his voyages triggered the Columbian Exchange β the transfer of plants, animals, cultures, and diseases that fundamentally altered every human society on Earth.

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