How Did Columbus Pay For Human Progress

The European’s game for discovering Indies competition and the race of finding alternate routes to the East Asian islands hasn’t end. It was made pretty clear that the earth was round. Meaning that we could reach the east by sailing west. Yet no one was willing to pay for Columbus’ journey to satisfy his curiosity, which meant he needed to find a very convincing reason to his supporters. So, Columbus claimed that any of his backers would become rich, drawing the Spanish rulers attention. These Spanish rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella, had two main reasons for signing to the project. Other than the tempting profits, they wanted to spread Catholicism to any new land they could possibly reach. Luckily, Columbus arrived at Spanish court when the
While Columbus has made up his “convincing” hypothesis, no one wanted to pay him to let him risk his absurd idea just to satisfy his curiosity. Columbus claimed that any of his supporters would become rich, which drew the attention of joint rulers of the Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella. Ferdinand and Isabella had two main reasons to support the project, the profit the voyage would bring and the value to spread Catholicism to new lands that Columbus would discover. Coincidently, Columbus arrived at the Spanish court immediately after Christian’s movement of driving Muslim rulers out of Iberia ended, with the fall of the Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492. In embracing Columbus’ Atlantic voyage, the Spanish monarchs joined the Christianizing enterprise and also invested in a profitable proposition. When Columbus reached the islands of the Caribbean Sea he thought he had arrived at the Asian “Indies”, an idea that people dispelled gradually. Thus, people still call the islands off the southeast coast of the U.S. as the West