Columbus also convinced King Ferdinand to fund his explorations. 10. Where did Columbus land in October, 1492? the bahamas 11. What was the "fundamental difference" between Columbus' voyage in 1492 and other Portuguese explorers of that time?
He suggested that a passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific could be explored through the Isthmus of Panama * 1602: Samuel de Champlain returned home to France and was rewarded by Henry IV, the King of France, with a pension and appointed Geographer to the King * 1602: Samuel de Champlain made his home in Dieppe where he met Aymar de Chaste the Governor of Dieppe * 1602: Aymar de Chaste had obtained a monopoly of the fur trade and set up a trading post at the port of Tadoussac in Quebec ('New France'). De Chaste offered Samuel de Champlain the opportunity to join an exploration and colonise his lands in
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorer and was famous for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California.Not much is known about his early life, but Juan Rodriguez was born on 1499 in Castilla .Cabrillo served in the army of a famous conquistador Hernan Cortes, where he joined the conquest of Mexico and Guatemala. Cabrillo fought as a captain of crossbowmen in the battles between Aztecs and the Spanish. After the defeat of the Aztecs, Cabrillo joined different Spanish military expeditions in what today southern Mexico, Guatemala and San Salvador. By the 1530s Cabrillo established himself as a citizen of Santiago.
He set sail for the New World in 1500, while he was on an expedition to Colombia. He was going to try and find gold, but someone took the gold before him, so he settled as a farmer in Hispaniola. Balboa soon found himself in debt. To escape, he hid in a large barrel and was carried on board a ship that was sailing to the settlement of San Sebastián, in Colombia. When the ship was safely in the ocean, Balboa came out of hiding.
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima speaks of Christopher Columbus’ diary, which spoke of his many voyages and discoveries. After his second voyage, the Portuguese informed Columbus of Africans in large boats with merchandise sailing west of the Cape Verde islands. The Portuguese were aware of African navigation because they had been in Africa since 1415. Not only did the Portuguese tell Columbus of Africans but Natives in the Olmec civilization spoke of Africans as well. The Olmec civilization, was the first civilization established in the Americas.
Nurmukhametov Yersin Analytical Essay: “Men, women and chiefs” “Men, women and chiefs” is an infield work, which was written in Brazil by Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist born in Brussels in 1908. In this writing, Levi-Strauss tried to draw a parallel between a primitive society of Nambikwara and modern industrial ones. This paper will firstly describe the main questions author was trying to address, state the main argument of the author, and then analyze his work by evaluating the main argument in terms of clarity and precision and finally comment on scope and limitations of his work. The author’s project here is to show that primitive societies share structure with those which are considered to be more sophisticated. He uses the theory of social contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a model to examine power structure of the Nambikwara tribe.
As a living laboratory Galapagos island have a rich scientific history! And today I am going to tell you the location, its brief history and what Charles Darwin’s discoveries on Galapagos island. The Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles west of Ecuador, which is on the western coast of South America. Their first recorded discovery was on March 10, 1535, by Fray Tomas de Berlanga, who happened upon them accidentally while sailing from Panama to Peru. Some historians believe the islands were visited and used by groups of Incas as early as a century prior to de Berlanga's discovery, but this has never been proven.
Europeans had dreamed of a Central American canal as early as the 16th century. The construction of the canal was important to reduce time and distance traveled between Pacific and the Atlantic so that ships would not have to travel double the distance through Cape Horn. According to the film from the PBS website about the Panama Canal, the French government had attempted to construct the canal
This essay will give a critical account of British imperialism underlying Lord Normanby’s instructions to Hobson in August of 1839. This letter gives an articulate account of British imperialist ideology applied one of Britain’s latter colonies, New Zealand. Historical Background The first Europeans to reach New Zealand was in 1642 by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. However, Europeans did not return until James Cook’s voyage during 1768-71. From then on New Zealand was seen as a trading post for French, British, and American sealers and whalers.
Access to commodities such as fabrics, spices, and gold motivated a European quest for a faster means to reach South Asia. It was this search that led the Portuguese down the coast of West Africa to Sierra Leone in 1460. Due to several technological and cultural advantages, Portugal dominated world trade for nearly 200 years, from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries. While, in the fifteenth century, the rest of Europe was decimated by the Black Plague, Portugal was protected by its physical isolation. Additionally, Portugal had an unusually strong national identity, due to its natural geographic borders, allowing the pooling of the considerable economic resources necessary to fund these ambitious explorations.