I Pre colonial Times A. 1250 AD --The Polos 1. traveled to china for 25 years --was known as Marco Polo a.his first travel book in history . realized they could reach asia through sea B. The Portuguese 1. in 1487 they find the length of Africa 2. Gama found the water route to asia C. Columbus - first to have the idea that if you sail to the west u arrive at the east 1.1484-- NObody gives him the money for his journey 2.
Web. 15 October 2010. Bentley, Jerry H., Herbert F. Ziegler, Heather E. Streets-Salter. Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History Volume II 1500 to Present. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Christopher Columbus Cristoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus, was probably born in Genoa Italy in 1451. In his youth, Columbus went to Portugal, then the most advanced seafaring nation, at least once he sailed down the coast of West Africa. He married, had a son and was widowed; later he had a second son by a woman that he chose not marry due to her low social status. Up until the mid 1500s and the time of Copernicus, the dominant paradigm was a Geocentric one with the Earth at the centre of the universe and the sun, moon and stars revolving around it in perfect spherical orbits. This supported Christian teachings about God's creation and the importance of humanity.
After two years of schooling for Cortes, before he returned to Medellin to the annoyance of his parents who had hoped to see him equipped for a profitable legal career. Plans were made in 150 for Cortes to sail to the Americas with a family acquaintance, Ovando, the newly appointed governor of Hispaniola. In 150, at the age of eighteen Cortes sailed in a convoy of merchant ships bound for Santo Domingo, the Capital of Hispaniola. In 1511, he was sent with Diego Velasquez and 00 men to conquer Cuba. At the age of twenty six he served as a clerk to the treasurer which entailed keeping account of the king’s fifth.
He took his first voyage across that Atlantic which almost led to death. Columbus also began a new voyage with the Santa Maria, Piñata, and Nina. He also mastered the currents of the Atlantic, thinking they flowed for east to west. Columbus’s last voyage was sailed in 1502.
His plans to reach India by sailing west were rejected by John II of Portugal, but finally supported by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. On his First voyage, Columbus set sail from Saltes, on August 3, 1492, in the Santa and accompanied by the Nina and the Pinta reached the Bahamas on October 12,
Bibliography • Keith A. Pickering -www.columbusnavigation.com/v1.shtml, 1997-2010 • En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher Columbus, Nov 9, 2011 • Eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm, 2004 • Creating America, New York Edition. McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company-2007. Pages 49-53 Dear Journal August 3, 1492 I can’t believe that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave me the opportunity to go sailing. It took me a couple of tries, but they agreed to supply me with everything I need. The ruler of Spain gave me three ships-the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Then he became a map maker. In 1484, Christopher Columbus attempted to convince King John II of Portugal to sponsor his voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal was satisfied with what they had achieved in Africa and India. They felt no desire to explore what had already had been a disappointing Atlantic. Then Columbus turned to Spain.
It seems highly unlikely that those thousands of people would have kept it a secret for so long. The Apollo Moon landings were among the most documented and observed events in history. The conspiracy "theories" that claim otherwise are really of nonsense without even a single convincing piece of evidence. Most of the questions raised are based on ignorance of basic physics and optics. Video special effects were in their infancy in the late 60's so; faking a landing on the Moon would probably have been more difficult than actually going there.
Web. 15 Oct. 2009. <http://colonialhall.com/adamss/adamss.php>. "Samuel Adams Biography." Encyclopedia of World Biography.