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Hace 14 horas · Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, is often credited as being the first European to discover America. His journey, funded by the Spanish monarchy, took place in 1492 and marked the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the New World. Columbus set sail from Spain in August 1492, aboard the ships Santa Maria, Pinta, and Niña.
Hace 4 días · Ferdinand Magellan | CHRISTOPHER vs. COLUMBUS. (1480 – 1521) In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
Hace 5 días · On May 20, 1506, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century. He explored the West Indies, South America and Central America, but died a disappointed man, feeling he had ...
Hace 1 día · verapenavic. Located in the southwest corner of Central Park sits Columbus Circle, and its center, a 70-foot statue of infamous Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus. Unveiled on October 12,...
Hace 1 día · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans.
Hace 4 días · (1454 – 1512) Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia’s eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus’ voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to people of the Old World.
Hace 2 días · Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492 led to the systematic extermination of the Arawak people. Arawak population declined from 250,000 to 500 by 1550 due to colonialism. Colonialism involves control, cultural imposition, and economic exploitation. Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a group, unlike the current Israel-Gaza-West Bank ...
