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.
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.
On August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail westward from Palo inspecting to sail around the world and reach the east side of Asia for gold and other earthly riches. On October 11, 1492 his plans were compromised. Instead of reaching Asia Columbus discovered an unknown inhabitant land, what we know was North and South America. Now before Columbus came to America there were people living there. The first people recorded living there were Native Americans called the Jaradite Nation.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail to go to east India to find gold, instead of getting to east India, he landed in the Bahamas. Thinking he had arrived in India, Columbus assumed the people who were settled in the Bahamas were Indians. He had discovered the New World which is now North and South America. This is a major turning point in history because if Columbus hadn’t went on this voyage, he would have never discovered the New World. No one had really known that part of the world even existed until Columbus arrived there.
De León entered the Charlotte Harbor area. As he and his men explored inland for wood and fresh water, as they saw the Calusa tribal village at Mound Key, they knew that the Calusa were an unfriendly tribe. The explorers quickly fled to their ships and may their way back to Puerto Rico. In 1521, Ponce de León returned to Florida again to form a colony. He came with over 200 settlers, horses, tools, and seeds expecting set up a farming colony.
The entire western world has been taught that Columbus was the first man from cultures known to us to reach the “New World” what if what we’ve been taught is false? The fact of the matter is that what we have been taught is incorrect. Take a gander with me if you will. The Europeans arrived 1492, in vessels maxing out their holds at 20 to 90 men and supplies for them to survive. The vastness of the Chinese is demonstrated six centuries ago, a mighty armada of Chinese ships crossed the China Sea, then ventured west to Arabia, and East Africa.
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?
As sailors and navigators on board Spanish galleons, Filipinos -- also known as "Manila men" or Spanish-speaking Filipinos -- jumped ship to escape the brutality of their Spanish masters. They built houses on stilts along the gulf ports of New Orleans and were the first in the United States to introduce the sun-drying process of shrimp. Living in the United States, Filipino immigrants experienced racial discrimination from others, as well as themselves. Many Filipino immigrants who immigrated to the United States in the first wave discriminated against new waves of Filipino immigrants. They had also had to find out how they fit in to American society, and keep their own cultural identity.
The islands, still uninhabited on a permanent basis by man and, hence, shrouded in mystery, soon came to be known as the Enchanted Islands because they disappeared into the fog at certain times of year and could not be seen by passing ships. In fact, some 17th-century Spaniards claimed that the Galapagos Islands were not islands at all, but mere shadows. But by the 18th century, British (and later, early American) whalers and sealers began to visit the islands regularly as part of an effort to set up an industry center in the Pacific Ocean. So heavy was the activity on the islands at this time that, in 1800, a makeshift "post office" -- consisting of little more than a marked barrel -- was established on Floreana. This post office still exists
On May 5, 1494 Christopher Columbus, the European explorer, who sailed west to get to the East Indies and came upon the region now called the West Indies, landed in Jamaica. This occurred on his second voyage to the West Indies. Columbus had heard about Jamaica, then called Xaymaca, from the Cubans who described it as “the land of blessed gold”. Columbus was soon to find out that there was no gold in Jamaica. On arrival at St Ann’s Bay, Columbus found the Arawak Indians inhabiting the island.