Why were the raw resources of the New World so valuable to the European colonial empires?

SOC 222
Final Research Paper: Essay Draft
SOJIN PARK (190232173)
Option 6. Why were the raw resources of the New World so valuable to the European
colonial empires? (timber, potatoes).
Introduction
Globalization has united people in one world. Today’s a great number of people
can experience many different cultures without much effort. The world will gradually
globalize more and more every day. Also, this means that globalization can be seen as an
inevitable. The globalization brings about the positive results such as a solution to the
jobless, new technology development, and the spread of education. Therefore, the
globalization has become a fact of life, and been taking one step further toward the positive
sides. Globalization like various products from other countries are bringing countries
together in ways never imagined before. In the past time, the first significant European
immigration wave, spanning the 16th to 18th centuries, consisted mostly of settlers from
the British Isles attracted by economic opportunity and religious freedom. These early
immigrants were a mix of well-to-do individuals and indentured servants. These settlers
might not have survived without the help of a friendly Indian. The Indians taught them how
to grow their plants such as maize, tobacco and potatoes. Moreover, the forests also
provided abundant materials such as timber for the construction of houses, furniture and
ships, and for export. For Europe, Asia, and Africa these crops — especially the starchy
plants — turbo-charged population growth. The diet of the poor improved, as did birth
rates. for better or worse, there was no turning back from the connection forged between
Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas in the late 15th century. Goods,
crops, mineral wealth, words, and medicines flowed east into Europe while livestock,
humans, plants, ideas, and much more travelled west into the Americas. This flow and
counterflow is known as the Columbian Exchange. The first globalization in the world is
Columbus exchange and it has affected to the European colonial empires. The influx of
Europeans and Africans to the Americas that followed some resources arrival set in motion
a chain of events that changed the face of the entire world. Also, many of these changes
related to plants, including potatoes, maize, tobacco, cacao and rubber trees, crops
previously unknown to the rest of the world. Potato and timber are the most important
resources among others.
The Columbian Exchange is responsible for the widespread transfer of the raw
materials from the colonies of the European nations to the mainland of the colonizing
country. The majority of the items that were transferred with the help of the Columbian
Exchange were the various types of plants, animals, raw materials for food as well as the