1. Why is Christopher Columbus mythologized?
I think back when the North America was being populated by the Europeans, they had to praise someone for discovering the new land, and Christopher Columbus was the only one who sailed anywhere near there. They had to give the credit to someone and back then, they didn't have extensive history records to know who went where. Now, in present times, it's too late to change the name. It has to stay the same. So now they glorify his story to make him look good because they can't change anything now. And it's not that "important" either to change it when historians know the truth.
2. In this period, the origin of global independence, something new that comes about would be the discovery of sea lanes. They are waterways for traders to use to made trade by water easier to be done. Anther new thing was printing and gunpowder and we'll see how they affected the societies. Trading by land and sea stays the same and the communication is the same in that they communicate, but different in that they communicate with new regions now that are farther away. Diseases still spread thanks to trading with other merchants from one region to another.
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