America Before Columbus

The arrival of Europeans in the Americas made a dramatic impact there and triggered an ecological revolution known today as 'The Columbian Exchange'. This groundbreaking depiction of life in the Americas before 1492 and during the first centuries of colonisation shows how the Columbian Exchange transformed life not only in the New World but in the Old as well.

The arrival of the Europeans continued to bring major, and often devastating, changes to the life-ways of the indigenous American inhabitants