| How much do you about Christopher Columbus? | | Christopher Columbus was the voyager who discovered USA in 1492. Before discovering USA by Columbus, tribal people (Red Indians) were living there. After his discover, people of different countries of Europe (specially UK) migrated in USA. For doing the jobs in agricultural lands and mining fields, African people were taken there. Let us know more about Columbus:[b]Christopher Columbus[/b](c. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe—he was preceded by the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built a temporary settlement 500 years earlier at L'Anse aux Meadows[1]— Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his four voyages of discovery and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World." (The term "pre-Columbian" is usually used to refer to the peoples and... | |
| | Who is Columbus???? | | Christopher Columbus was a navigator and maritime explorer credited as the discover of the Americas.He had noted in his lifetime that he was born in Genoa, Italy.His birth name was Cristoforo Colombo.He eventually became an admiral for the Crown of Castile.The name Christopher Columbus is the anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus.Also well known are his name's rendering in modern italian as Cristoforo Colombo and in Castillian Spanish as Cristobal Colon.
Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the Western Hemisphere.While history places great significance on his first voyage in 1498.Likewise, he was not the earliest European explorer to reach the Americas, as there are accounts of European transatlantic contact prior to 1492.Nevertheless, Columbus's voyage came at a critical time of growing national imperialism and economic competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies.Therefore, the period before 1492 is known as Pre-Columbian.
The anniversary of the 1492 voyage is observed throughout the Americas... | |
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