<span>It was the first step to connecting the western and eastern hemispheres together through trade and culture exchange. Although European diseases wiped out many native cultures, other exchanges such as corn and potatoes allowed a better diet for people and increased native and Irish population.</span>
The form of culture in which humans modify the environment to suit our wants and needs is referred to as technology. It is also called the material culture. It is a type of culture which is defined by the physical things, resources and spaces that the people are using. This involves physical modification of the environment for it to suit our wants and needs. This includes, schools, cities, offices, churches, temples, factories, tools, goods and products, production means, clothes and many others. These things would reflect historical, social and geographic conditions of the people which are used to describe this group.
