Six Degree of Seperation: Event 1: Columbus discoverys the New World - 1492 Italian explorer Christopher Columbus convinced the Spanish monarchs to sponsor his voyage with three ships: the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Santa Clara. After six weeks of his first voyage, Columbus and his fellow seafarers stumbled upon the New World. Columbus's discovery would later lead to the Europeans colonizing on this new unknown land. Event 2: The Tready of Tordesillas - 1494 One of the first Europeans to take advantage of Columbus's discovery was the Spaniards. Since the New World offered raw materials such as gold and silver, the Spaniards were eager to start colonizing and conquering the New World.
He was born in Genoa, Italy. During his lifetime he had little education. As a teenagers and a child he loved the sea. He became a sailor as a teenager also. Last he worked with his father until he was twenty-two,and he worked as a fisherman.
Manuel Rodriguez 12/20/2013 How Did the Enlightenment Cause the Latin American Revolution? European exploration began during the Middle Ages. During the late 13th century, Italian explorer Marco Polo went on a 25-year overland journey through Mongolia and Japan in search of a route to the Far East for trading textiles and spices that were essential to preserving food. Polo's account of his journey, The Travels of Marco Polo, published in 1477, was read by many future European explorers. (p. 1 European Exploration) In October 1492, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
He returned to Spain in glory, having discovered the New World. What's wrong with this story? Quite a bit, actually. Myth #1: Columbus wanted to prove the world was not flat. The theory that the earth was flat and that it was therefore possible to sail off the edge of it was common in the middle ages, but had been discredited by Columbus' time.
Cortes’ Motives for Conquering Mexico Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, conquered a vast empire in Central America. Born in 1485 in Medellin, located in Western Spain, he originally studied law but left to the Americas in hopes of gaining power, making a fortune, and spreading Christianity, and was determined to attain what he wanted. Cortes’ motives for conquering Mexico were political, financial, and religious. Cortes had a strong desire to achieve political power, setting out to Mexico to attain it since his power in Cuba was already limited. When Cortes first moved to Cuba in 1511, he assisted Diego Velazquez, Cortes’ brother-in-law and governor of Cuba in his conquest of the island.
In Spain 1942, Christopher Columbus set out on a voyage to India, his hopes were to find a shorter route and to trade with the peoples there. Due to some mathematical and navigational errors he sailed west instead and landed in San Salvador 33 days later thinking it was the West Indies. Columbus was the first European to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas hence opening the doorway to centuries of global exploration and colonization. A few years later in 1947 a Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set route to India. Da Gama sailed south of Portugal into the Atlantic around Africa and eventually reaching India thirty-seven hundred kilometers later.
Question 1 Who the Explorer was (his background as a seafarer) and when and where he was born? Christopher Columbus was a famous Italian Seafarer, Navigator and Sailor who was born on Tuesday the 31st of October, 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy to Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. He is famous for journeying across the Atlantic to the Americas. His voyages led to the Spanish colonization/rule over South American powers. All together over the years 1492-1504 he made a total of four voyages across the Atlantic to the Caribbean.
A Comparison on the Colonization Techniques of England and Spain and the resulting outcomes Spain and England are known leaders of the Colonization of the New World. Both countries had a very different approach to how they colonized the New World, and both of them reaped different benefits from colonization. Spain had started their colonization process in 1492 when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World; in 1493 Spain had established their first Colony of Hispaniola. Almost 100 years later, in 1587 England entered the arena with their first settlement on Roanoke Island. This establishment quickly collapsed and the first permanent English colony of Jamestown was established 20 years later in 1607.
Unbothered by rejection Columbus went to Isabella and Ferdinand for financial backing. They were no more interested than the Portuguese had been. But time was Columbus's side. Columbus lobbying on behalf of the "Enterprise of the Indies"
The Moorish presence was ended in early 1492, when the stronghold of Granada fell. Ferdinand and Isabella, known as the Catholic kings, celebrated the victory in part by expelling the Jews from Spain. This move earned high marks from the pope, but dealt a severe economic blow to the nation. The defeat of the Moors also freed the monarchs to support exploratory ventures, including those of Christopher Columbus. The four voyages of Columbus (between 1492 and 1504) served to open the door to European exploration, colonization and exploitation of the New World, although Columbus himself never set foot in North America.