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How did Christopher Columbus Discovered America?

Journey of Christopher Columbus for the discovery of America

By Son SimPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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How did Christopher Columbus 
 Discovered America?
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After the third trip, Columbus said his access had grown from Asia contrary to the evidence. Amerigo Vespucci's voyage to the South American coast convinced many explorers and their sponsors that there was an unprecedented continent in the Atlantic, which he called Mundus Novus or New World.

But King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to support the campaign and Columbus sailed with his three ships, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, across the Atlantic Ocean on August 3, 1492. Although Columbus was known to have discovered the United States, he actually tried to find a sea route westward. to the East, and when he finally arrived in the Americas in 1492, this changed the course of world history. In a ready-to-print version, Columbus sailed on his three-seater, Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, leaving the Spanish port of Palos Verdes on August 3, 1492.

On the voyage, Columbus had the prospect of a calm sea and a steady stream that would take him north when he discovered that the southern trade was the future fuel for the cargo ships that were loading to New World. His intention was to sail westward to Asia-India, where gold, pearls, and spices were waiting for him. His first stop was the Canary Islands, but due to lack of travel, his trip was canceled on 6 September.

On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain for Asia. He arrived on October 12, more than two months later on the Bahamas island of San Salvador (the locals call it Guanahani). He spent five months exploring the Caribbean islands of Juana, Cuba, Hispanicsiola, and Santo Domingo before returning to Spain.

During the voyage, he explored many Caribbean islands, but he found no evidence of China. Columbus also explored parts of Cuba and the island of Hispanics where he established the settlement of La Navidad.

Columbus returned to Spain because he believed that he could find a way back to the East. He died at the Spanish monastery at the age of 50 and seven on May 20, 1506, believing that he had found a new way to Asia and that China and Japan lay beyond the islands he had explored. The first map of the new world came out in 1507, a year after his death.

Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller named the islands he explored in the Americas after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci who explored the South American coast and became the first to discover that it was its own continent and not part of Asia. Columbus was known for the discovery of America in 1492, but, as we now know, people longed for his real success when he opened the door to further exploring the New World. He is also known as Cristoforo Colombo (Italian: Cristobal Colon), a Spanish-Italian explorer named after the American discovery.

Although he did not complete the project, his travels included the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America inhabited by indigenous groups. In 1493, Columbus set out on his second voyage to explore some of the islands of the Caribbean Ocean. In the United States, he made three other voyages and explored the Lesser Antilles (1493), Trinidad, the North Coast of South America (1498), and Central America's East Coast (1502).

Three weeks later Christopher Columbus left the Canary Islands in three small ships sailing westward to the then-unknown sea, the Atlantic Sea. Upon arrival in Hispanicsiola, Columbus and his crew discovered that Navidad had been destroyed and sailors were killed. Columbus quickly returned in 1493 on a great voyage, but many members of the crew found themselves dead, and the golden opportunity was put into mixing with the new settlers living on the island.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, crossing the Atlantic in hopes of finding a new route to India. His third voyage, in 1498, took him to Trinidad before reaching the continent of South America. His last voyage, in 1502, took him to Central America and Jamaica where he sacrificed.

Such a trip to the island of Khios in modern-day Greece brought him as close as he could to Asia. Between 1492 and 1504 Christopher Columbus made four voyages to the Caribbean and South America and is often accused (or even blamed) of the American opening of the European colony. His first voyage across the Atlantic in 1476 cost him his life when a merchant fleet attacked the coast of Portugal by French aircraft.

Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant, was an Italian explorer who stumbled upon a voyage across the Americas that began the first century of transatlantic colonization. Columbus remained at sea until 1476 when pirates attacked a merchant ship coming from the north coast of Portugal. The ship sank, and Columbus moved ashore with discarded wood and headed for Lisbon, where he studied mathematics, astronomy, cartography, and navigation.

Christopher Columbus was determined to find a direct canal from Western Europe to Asia, something he had never done before. Not only did he discover New World, where millions of people live today, but he also embarked on the fourth voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that began centuries of exploration and colonization in North and South America. Columbus thought he had arrived in India, an old Asian name, but the word "East India" was actually used to refer to the islands of Southeast Asia.

In an unknown past, the Polynesians had been in contact with the native peoples of South America, and sweet potatoes seem to have migrated to South America from Asia because they were transported by Polynesian sailors. According to Marco and other sources, Christopher Columbus predicted that his voyage would take him to Cathay (China), Cipango (Japan), the Spice Islands, Moluccas, and finally to India. Columbus took a trip to America where he explored large parts of the Caribbean and areas along the north coast of North Carolina.

Columbus' discovery of Haiti confirmed that it was the land to which Solomon and Jehosophat had sent gold and silver. On the island, Columbus first inquired about the gold and took all the traces he could find.

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