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Hace 5 días · Christopher Columbus - Voyages, Discoveries, Legacy: There are few material remains of Columbus’s travels. Efforts to find the Spaniards’ first settlement on Hispaniola have so far failed, but the present-day fishing village of Bord de Mer de Limonade (near Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) may be close to the original site, and a Taino chieftain’s settlement has been identified nearby.
Hace 4 días · Christopher Columbus - Exploration, Caribbean, Americas: The gold, parrots, spices, and human captives Columbus displayed for his sovereigns at Barcelona convinced all of the need for a rapid second voyage. Columbus was now at the height of his popularity, and he led at least 17 ships out from Cádiz on September 25, 1493.
2 de jun. de 2024 · 01 Christopher Columbus made a total of four expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean. 02 He was the first explorer to establish a European presence in the New World. 03 In addition to his native Italian, Columbus also knew Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish. 04 Columbus never wrote anything in his native Italian.
26 de may. de 2024 · Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who is widely credited with discovering America in 1492. He embarked on a series of voyages funded by the Spanish monarchy, aiming to find a western trade route to Asia.
10 de jun. de 2024 · Updated June 11, 2024. When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's shores centuries before. The question of who discovered America is a difficult one to answer. While many schoolchildren are taught that Christopher Columbus was responsible for the ...
23 de may. de 2024 · Saint Kitts and Nevis - Caribbean, Colonization, Independence: Christopher Columbus visited Saint Kitts on his second voyage in 1493 and found it inhabited by Carib people. He named it Saint Christopher for his patron saint. The name was shortened to Saint Kitts by settlers under Sir Thomas Warner, who, arriving from England in 1623, established the first successful English colony in the West ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Bartolomé de Las Casas was an outspoken critic of the Spanish colonial government in the Americas.Las Casas was especially critical of the system of slavery in the West Indies.In 1515–16 he developed a plan for the reformation of the Indies with the help of religious reformer Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros.The plan ended in disaster, but Las Casas did not give up.
