List at least 3 long-term effects of European Exploration?

One, "discovery", conquest and colonization of the New World. The American continent was brought to the geographic realm of the known world by the European exploration.

Two, increased global trade, as a first phase of globalization.

Three, cultural and civilizational exchange that has left a permanent legacy in everyday life. For example, the cultivation and consumption of potato and tobacco, plants originated in the Americas, by Europeans; also, the consumption of sugar, rice and coffee that originated in Asia and brought by Europeans, in the Americas.