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In the novel, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles C. Mann enlightens and captures how Columbus’s expeditions united the lands of Eurasia and America. It is a well-written and informational book that successfully displays much of the development and foundation of our present all from the European discovery of the new world. Charles C. Mann’s main objective with this book was to extend on the geographer, Alfred W Crosby’s explanation of â€Å"Ecological Imperialism.† 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is fragmented into four sections and organized chronologically. The first section is Atlantic Journeys. Atlantic Journeys explains the establishment of the Columbian Exchange. English settlers arrived in Chesapeake Bay on May 14, 1607. They docked in the James River on a Native American empire, Tsenacomoco. In 1610, John Rolfe transplanted tobacco seeds from Venezuela. Six years later he traded tobacco for English dirt, which brought the life source of earthworms to America. European powers turn Virginia into a tobacco-producing machine on the global market (95). From 1607 to 1624 tobacco spreads to China, Dheli, Istanbul, and Mughal empires. Tobacco brought malaria and yellow fever to the Americas. Then sugarcane spread malaria to the Caribbean and Mexico. By 1620, American tobacco is at its highest profit. Such income led colonists to create a representational body in the colonies in 1619. The Colombian exchange raised the price of in dentured