Prior to Christopher Columbus’s exploration to the Americas‚ there were many things that Europe lacks and many things that the Native Americans lacked. There were no domesticated animals in America before the English came‚ they relied the transporting of goods on Llamas‚ as they were the biggest animals on the land. There were scarcely any mammals left in America after the ice age. The summer of 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sent Columbus on the biggest and most monumental exploration that discovered
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1490’s of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Caribbean islands‚ there was not a single thing that could make his conquest fail. His conquest began with meeting the Taino people. Despite the Taino not knowing who these explorers were or where they came from they were friendly and open toward the Europeans. With his exploration‚ in the Americas in place‚ it sets forth many drastic‚ harsh‚ and cruel living standards for the Native Americans. Many factors and advantages played a role in Columbus’ successful
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expedition and explored more islands in the Caribbean Ocean. Upon arrival at Hispaniola‚ Columbus and his crew discovered the Navidad settlement had been destroyed with all the sailors massacred. the wishes of the queen‚ who found slavery offensive‚ Columbus established a forced labor policy over the native population to rebuild the settlement and explore for gold‚ before returning to Spain‚ Columbus left his brothers Bartholomew and Diego to govern the settlement on Hispaniola and sailed
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Christopher columbus is known for discovering the americas in 1492. He was an italian explorer and navigator in the 1400s and was hired by the spanish monarchy to find the “new world” as in the america’s but on accident. He led 3 ships to set out and find such land the names of the ships were the Santa Maria‚ Nina‚ and the Pinta. He was supposed to find a direct water route from Europe to Asia but landed at the america’s. Though he was not really the man to first find the americas because they
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Zheng He or Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer that is considered to be the man who discovered the Americas. He was born somewhere between October 26 and 31‚ 1451‚ Genoa Italy and died May 20‚ 1506‚ Valladolid Spain. Due to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans Turks in 1453‚ the silk road became much more dangerous and difficult to traverse which led to sailors trying to find a way to Asia by way of the sea. Columbus made four transatlantic voyages in 1492
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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
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It is a debate as to who discovered America. Many think that Christopher Columbus discovered America‚ but that may not be true. Before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in 1492 it is believed that Bjarni Herjolfsson‚ a Viking‚ may have been the first European to see North America with his crew he went looking for his father traveling from Ireland to Greenland. He was led off course by bad conditions. He came to land that wasn’t Greenland‚ and he didn’t want to stop despite his crew wanting
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altering a recollection of actual historical events is Bernal Diaz de Castillo’s recollection of the conquest of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). Diaz at the time‚ was a Spanish soldier during the conquest of Mexico City‚ which took place from 1519 to 1521. At the age of eighty-four years old in 1568‚ over forty years after the events had taken place‚ Diaz produced a narrative from his time as a soldier during the conquest of Mexico City. Diaz self proclaims in his recollection
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During the late fifteenth century‚ Spain had many very qualified explorers that could have been sent to find a new trade route to India‚ but instead the monarchs chose Christopher Columbus‚ a Genoan. Although it would seem more likely that the King would send his own explorers to find a new passage‚ Columbus was the best choice for this mission. It was not because he was the best explorer available‚ but because he was the only one willing to make the trip and because Spain did not want to send
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One of the primary lessons I learned is that Christopher Columbus is said to have carried a range of diseases the first time he crossed the Atlantic in 1492‚ which wiped out a huge population of Indians. The strategy was viewed as revenge through the introduction of syphilis into Europe. On the other hand‚ a skeleton was found in an English monastery that was said to be of a man who possibly died of syphilis. It is tough to determine the disease an individual died from especially after a long period
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