He was able to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to find North America. He found the best way to get to America. Last, he began the settlement in North America. Another topic on Columbus is moved to Portugal. When he got there, he started a family with Doña Felipa.
Another Portuguese explorer was Da Gama. Da Gama captained the fleet of ships to reach India. There, they found many more spices and set up trading posts for Europe. This Journey opened a direct route to the overseas trade that helped for Portugal’s economy. Though Portugal was probably the largest country for exploration another center country was Spain.
He started captaining ships in his early twenties when he settled in Lisbon, Portugal alongside his brother Bartholomew, whom he helped with his cartography business. During this time he captained Italian merchant ships. Question 2 Why he wanted to make the Voyages and why he worked for whom he did? Christopher Columbus, like everyone else of his time wanted wealth and fame. He believed that this was achievable by creating a direct water route to the East.
The New World Old World Anthony Nnana ENG/491 March 5, 2012 Michael Briggs, PhD Introduction In the early years of the 1400s Europe had started developing and expanding I economic activities. By 1492, explorations to expand and find new frontiers had begun. In 1492, Christopher Columbus along with dozens of Europeans sailed across the Atlantic ocean to the new World. The voyagers were amazed at what they found: the people and their culture, the land and its beauty. The stories of Colon, one of the Indians that Columbus took back to Spain showed that the discoveries were mutual rather than one sided.
(p. 1 European Exploration) In October 1492, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic). Columbus believed that he was in the outer islands of the Far East, and he made three more voyages in search of a path to Asia. During the last three voyages, Columbus reached the major islands of the Caribbean, which he named the West Indies. It was not until 1507, a year after Columbus's death, that cartographer Amerigo Vespucci suggested that Columbus had landed on an entirely new land that was far from Asia. (p. 2 European Exploration) Although Spain's new claims created the Spanish Empire, the extent of its lands was still unknown.
England eagerly sent Italian explorer Giovanni Cabato, also known as John Cabot, to venture and explore North America’s northeastern coast in 1497 and 1498. Later on, in 1524, the French king also sought help from an Italian mariner. He dispatched Giovanni de Varrazano to probe the eastern seaboard of North America. Ten years later, France sent their own Jacques Cartier up the St. Lawrence River, on a journey hundreds of miles long. Feeling the pressure of these two new venturing countries, the Spanish began to fortify and settle their borderlands in North America, in order to secure the northern periphery of their territory in the New World.
As Inigo Arieta (who escorted Columbus out to sea in 1492), the Commander of the Biscay fleet put it, caravels were ‘’corredoras extremadas, buenas para descubrir tierras (1).” Columbus’s ships Niña and Pinta were supposedly caravels, and Columbus repeatedly praised his favorite ship, Niña, for her great speed, maneuverability, and safety (2). However, as is evident in the historical record, not all caravels were designed the same way, and many changes were made throughout the history and development of the ship. In essence, it is hard to define the ‘pure’ archetypal caravel (3). There is very little iconography that depicts the caravel at any stage of its development, and as of yet there are no extant remains of one of these vessels. However, it is still possible to trace the origin of the ship and study it through historical accounts, shipbuilding treatises, ethnographic studies, and archaeological parallels.
The result of the new bacteria, animal, and plant life mixing caused devastating effects on the Americas and Europeans together. The results of this exchange altered both regions historically forever. Christopher Columbus, Cristoforo Colombo, was born in Genoa in 1451 to a humble family. Cristoforo had soon learned the classical learning that had been recently rediscovered and made available in printed form. He also mastered geography, and most likely while traveling the coast of West Africa, he became obsessed with traveling West across the Atlantic Ocean to reach Cahty, China.
Jim Wang Mr. Mark Garside 11th Honor Social Studies 8 October 2012 Christopher Columbus: Hero or Murderer? In most of the classrooms, people are taught that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean and “discovered America.” The second Monday in October is celebrated across America as Columbus Day. It is a celebration of the man who “discovered” New World. In October 12, 1492, three ships—Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria arrived the Bahaman archipelago with Spanish flags and a group of murders, rapists, and muggers. This is the start of a new world, but it is also a start for a series of genocides and tragic!
The Age of Expansion The Age of Expansion marks the beginning of the European invasion into what could be called the New World. Spanish explorers, lead by Christopher Columbus, set sail in hopes of discovering new trade routes and found themselves encountering new cultures in the New World. Life for the Native American Indian would never be the same after Columbus’ famous voyage. Columbus’ first impression of the natives appears to be a positive encounter. “At daybreak great multitudes of men came to the shore, all young and of fine shapes, very handsome” (Doc A).