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During this period we experienced massive population growth due to the improvement of medicine. With this newfound technology more jobs were created and industrialization became the norm. New sources of entertainment became available. A whole lot of things happened but these are some of the most notable.
I also believe it is A good luck.
The things that interested Columbus the most in his first meeting with the Taino, as he himself wrote in his journal, were the abundant possesion of gold that the Taino showed and the inferred knowledge of them of the places where the gold could be found. In his opinion it was worthy to try to convert them to Christianity.
They allowed for travel against a rivers current Hope this helps! ;D
A. 1830-1840 population went from 46,082 up to 102,193