Category: Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus and John Smith are very important in the United States history. They are both always remembered as successful explorers and also the ego in their leadership. Christopher Columbus found the New World, America. He took every opportunity and considered to be a leader never gave up, and even return to influence after a…

Christopher Columbus is the major player in the great discoveries, colonizer of the Americas and the Caribbean, he is the powerful man of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Thanks to him, and even if he did not do it on purpose, Europe discovered another continent, appropriated it and propelled the civilization of the Middle Ages,…

In the video Native American Before Columbus, Christopher Columbus left his home in Italy to go and fight for his vision. His vision was to go to Asia, and the era at that time was filled with discovery and with expansion. Everything all started with the Queen of Spain, she goes by the name of…

I decided to do my paper on Christopher Columbus who was born in Italy in 1451. He was in love with sailing for as long as he can remember. As a teenager he got his first taste of the open sea on some voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. Gold and spices were the…

The Columbian Exchange represents a turning point in human history that has shaped the world in ways that continue to resonate today. Named after Christopher Columbus, the exchange commenced in the late 15th century, marking a widespread exchange of crops, animals, technologies, cultures, and even diseases between the New World (the Americas) and the Old…

Christopher Columbus asked King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain for money to try out his idea of traveling west to reach the East. Queen Isabella refused Columbus at first. Later King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella gave Columbus three ships, a crew of about ninety men, and some money. The three ships were the Niña,…

One of Zinns main points is that we will always be reminded of the violence and wrongdoings of the past (Zinn 2003, p. 9). Part of the reason is that we cover atrocities with other information that is all about the glory. It is easy to say that these wrongdoings are justified because it was…

The Atlantic trade route was one of the newest trade routes that shaped the development of World History to 1500 by giving the Old World an entrance to the New World through the travel of the Atlantic Ocean. Although the New World was not new as it had existed just as long as the Old…

In this essay I will be discussing how the European encounters viewed the Americas in 1492, also explaining and comparing the prejudice within Christopher Columbuss journal with the perceptions the local people held on the Europeans. On the 12th of October 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived on the shores of Guanahani an island…

In the year of 1492 Christopher Columbus, an Italian merchant seaman in Portugal, set off on his first voyage in search of a new route to India. What he could not predict was that his voyage would transform Europes knowledge of the globe and would set the stage for an economic system that continues to…