How Did Christopher Columbus Voyage Successful

Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, born in the year 1451, voyaged across the Atlantic in search of a westward passage for direct trade with Asia in 1492. With burning ambitions, Columbus traveled to claim wealth and power for Spain and to convert the “pagans” of the New World to Christianity. Following in Spain’s footsteps to expand their country’s empires to the Americas, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands would send elite navigators to venture across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes to claim land and acquire power, only to soon realize a gigantic landmass blocked the western route. In addition, the English were also interested in the New World’s offers to its country; multitudes of opportunities to become rich and powerful, as well as offering an expedition that seemed promising with the abundance of information that came about from other European countries’ past voyages and various maritime technological advancements.
To begin with, England had two objectives for the voyage to the Western Hemisphere: to discover a northwestern passage to Asia, while
looting any gold found along the way; and to outdo the Spanish in attempts to colonize the New World. England attempted participating in the competition of the Atlantic Ocean in 1497, but failed to follow-up on John Cabot’s voyage until sixty years later. Although the English were slower to begin their Atlantic exploration, the desire to uncover an overseas passage and claim land for European supremacy still existed.
Simultaneously, the English navigators were also very capable of making the expedition overseas into the Western Hemisphere.
Being that England was a country that did not fully partake in the competition for Western lands until over a century later, there were many resources at-hand for them to use as guides and as lessons to ensure a successful colonization process in the New World. For instance, maritime technology had been improved and without any of the advancements, European exploration could not have been possible in the first place. In addition to the technology, massive epidemics within North and South America during the Spanish conquest almost wiped out the entire Native American population that had lived there prior to European exploration. Therefore, English settlers had a much more successful relationship with their Native neighbors, making for an easier attempt to colonize in North American
borders.
By 1607, England began to dispatch settlers to found colonies on the east-side of the New World. The ignorant and ill-prepared colonists failed many times before realizing that maintaining good relationships with the neighboring Native Americans could mean for a successful colony. Nevertheless, English colonists continued to experiment how to found a lasting colony in the New World. Their trial and error settlement consisted of countless deaths from starvation, sickness, battles against the Native Americans, and freezing to death; ultimately, proving how difficult establishing a stable and lasting colony would be in the Americas.
To summarize, England’s interests in the New World were to expand its empire into the Western Hemisphere while acquiring more power and wealth than the Spanish along the way. Furthermore, the English colonists were also capable of traveling overseas in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century because of the technological advancements, information about the other European voyages, and the epidemics that killed a majority of the Native Americans.