Columbus operated a little mapmaking and bookselling shop with his brother Bartolomeo while he lived in Portugal. 9. Columbus first landed near the coast of what is today known as Watling Island in the Bahamas. Although he thought he was near China, Japan, and India, he was actually more than 8,000 miles away. 10.
In 1325, Ibn Battuta set off for his hajj to Mecca reluctantly in fear of leaving his parents, when he made his travels from his home in Tangier to Mecca; a journey of 3,000 miles, he became curious about the world around him as he traveled through the cities of Jerusalem, Aleppo and Damascus. Ibn Battuta made the hajj to Mecca seven times, the second time he made the hajj he stayed and studied with Mecca’s great scholars. After numerous hajj’s Ibn Battuta set off for India. Ibn Battuta traveled to India in hopes of joining the court of the Sultan of Delhi. Ibn Battuta traveled through Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Russia before he arrived in Delhi; where he served as a qadi for the sultan for eight years.
Marco kept detailed journals, where he recorded his impressions of the terrain. When he first saw the great Gobi Desert, more than 500,000 square miles (805,000 km) of sand, he wrote: "This desert is reported to be so long that it would take a year to go from end to end... There is nothing at all to eat." The Polos stopped for a year in the Mongol region, where they learned about the lives and civilization of the people there. When the Polos reached Cathay to stay with the emperor Kublai Khan, Marco impressed the ruler with his
Soon after he died at the age of eighty-three leaving children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren and they have all heard and remember his midnight ride. He did not leave any wives because they both had died years ago which made all depressed in his olden days. Also he had eight with one and eight with the other but with the first one only 5 survived and the second only six survived. Even though many that fought are not alive now, their memories still live on. The colonies soon became America and what it is today because of all the historical events in the past due to Paul Revere and many others and all the wars and battles we won throughout the years, good thing we got rid of those British
March 11, 2014 Babe Ruth Babe Ruth was a legendary baseball player. He was born under the name George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. Babe was one of eight children though only him and one of his sisters survived. George’s parents worked long hours leaving Babe to do almost whatever he wanted. He skipped school quite often and causing trouble around his neighborhood.
Gradually after his death, his empire started to diminish but it never actually fell. His descendants separately ruled Russia, Turkey, India, Persia and China. Genghis’ empire stretched from the Yellow Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, a total of around twelve million square miles. In this area there were over seven hundred tribes and cities under his rule. No one is exactly sure how he died, some think it was a disease other than that we don’t know.
‘A View from the Bridge’ was written by Arthur Miller in 1955. This was ten years after the Second World War; the play was set around the same time in Red Hook, New York. Arthur Miller’s family were immigrants but they were legal so he knows what its like to be poor and an immigrant because of the Wall Street crash. A lot of the people who moved to Red Hook were from Sicily, Italy this was because Italy was involved a lot in the war, so the country was poor and had no work so people went to Red Hook looking for work. The work was only Casual Labour; they worked as long shore men, unloading ships.
Columbus an Italian believed he could sail west across the Atlantic and reach India. With sponsorship from the Spanish Monarch Columbus, with 3 ships and 90 sailors discovers the New World. He arrived at the Bahamas first encountering the Arawak Indians. Columbus never in his lifetime acknowledged that what he discovered was not India. Millions of natives in the New World died due to European illness making it easier for the Spanish Conquistadors to move in and take over much of the Americas.
Every year about three million gather for the major pilgrimage, or Hajj, during the Muslim month of Dhu'l-Hijja, and many more perform the minor pilgrimage, or Umrah, at various times throughout the year. Few non-Muslims have ever seen the rites and rituals of the Hajj, as non-Muslims are strictly prohibited from entering Mecca and Medina. Roadblocks are stationed along roads leading to the city. The most famous incident of a non-Muslim visiting Mecca was the visit by the British explorer Sir Richard Burton in 1853. Burton disguised himself as an Afghani Muslim to visit and write Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and
Historical Recount of Marco Polo’s Travels Marco Polo(1254-1324) was an Italian merchant who travelled the world famous “Silk Road” and connected the European and Asian civilisations. (timeline) Marco Polo was born in Venice to the son of a rich family, who provided him with a good education, especially in language: Italian and French, literacy skills and arithmetics. In 1271, when Marco was seventeen, he joined his father, Nicolo Polo and uncle, Maffeo Polo on their second trip to the East. This time they changed the route and passed through Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamier mountains and finally they reached the Gobi desert. After this long journey of three years, they arrived in China and met Kublai Khan.