October 1450 and 30 October 1451‚ died 20 May 1506) was an Genoese explorer‚ navigator‚ and colonizer‚ born in the Republic of Genoa (today part of Italy). Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain‚ he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages‚ and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola‚ initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World. In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European
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Chavelle MIatland Montego Bay Community College History (Yr2) “The recorded history of the West Indies does not grow gradually‚ as most Old World histories grow‚ out of a more remote mythological or archaeological past. It begins abruptly with a definite event: the arrival of the first European discoverers in Columbus’s fleet in 1492.”1 This quote sums up the written (from a European point of view) historical finding of what is now known as the West Indies based on the writings of cartographer
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Christopher Columbus Essay In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on one of the most famous voyages in human history. He was attempting to become the first person to ever reach the East Indies by way of travelling west across the Atlantic to get there. To get to the Indies at the time required one to travel eastward around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Earth was considered by many to be flat and that by travelling west‚ Columbus would simply fall off the face of
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Company‚ which is a trading company. Hudson took four voyages beginning in 1607 and continued to1611‚ making claims for the English and the Dutch. At one point‚ he was arrested for working with the Dutch‚ because in those days working for another country was considered treason. Hudson was also known as the grandfather of the English whaling industry‚ because he discovered pods of whales at Spitzbergen Island. Henry Hudson’s first voyage in 1607 was to find a way through the North Pole to Japan
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East Polynesians. East Polynesians can be defined as a distinct ethnic group inhabiting Pacific islands such as the Society‚ Marquesas and New Zealand. This essay will outline three issues‚ including the validity of the story of Kupe‚ whether the voyages to New Zealand were planned or accidental‚ and the time period of the arrival of the first settlers to New Zealand. The first controversial issue involves the validity of the story of Kupe‚ which has long been questioned whether it was a myth or
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MAPS AND HISTORY: MAPS AS SOURCE MATERIAL FOR EUROPEAN ARCTIC HISTORY IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. by Thor B. Arlov 1 INTRODUCTION In one of A.A. Milne’s books about Winnie-the-Pooh Christopher Robin takes his good friend the bear on an expedition: 2 «We’re going to discover the North Pole.» «Oh!» said Pooh again. «What is the North Pole?» he asked. «It’s just something you discover‚» said Christopher Robin carelessly‚ not being quite sure himself. Now‚ as it turned out‚ they did
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idea. Also he wanted his last voyage to be grand. He then ordered the ship to full speed and right on course. This was a big factor in the sinking of the Titanic. The ship was going to fast at night and when they saw the iceberg they couldn’t slow the massive ship down fast enough to clear the iceberg all the way. If only Captain Smith had slowed down enough to clear the iceberg many more lives would have been
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chose as case studies to represent transnational cinema are Le Grand Voyage (Ismael Ferroukhi‚ 2004) and Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears‚ 2002). I believe both films are ideal to represent transnational cinema and its features. I am going to look at the features of the films‚ the industries they belong to and how the production and distribution for each are different because of the industries they come from. Firstly‚ Le Grand Voyage is an ideal film to represent transnational cinema because it uses
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The great Spanish Empire was one of the greatest and largest empires in history. It was one of the first global extent. It came to its peak of political and economic power under the spanish Flabsburgs. 16th and 17th and 18th centuries of power. The Spanish empire has become the great foremost global power of its time and was the first to be called the empire on which the sun never sets. Since the death of Rome there has been no empire based in Europe which spreads outside of the continent. This
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What can I learn from a journey and how can it affect my life? Journeys‚ voyages‚ fights for survival: all of these are experiences that affect one’s life in many ways. As a general rule of thumb for this essay‚ a journey refers to a voyage or trip over a long distance‚ one typically involving a low survivability risk. This text is meant to reflect how near death experiences or battles of survivability impact one’s life. From the circumstance‚ to the journey‚ to the end of it all‚ such experiences
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