Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)is a person.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Marco Polo (1254-1324).
  • Ibn Battuta (1304-1369).
  • Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512).
  • Vasco Da Gama (1460-1524).
• See: Caribbean, Atlantic Slave Trade, Indies, Maritime Explorer.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Retrieved:2018-8-1.
  • Christopher Columbus( before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist. Born in the Republic of Genoa,he completed [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus|four voyages]] across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the permanent European colonization of the Americas. At a time when European kingdoms were beginning to establish new trade routes and colonies, motivated by imperialism and economic competition, Columbus proposed to reach the East Indies (South and Southeast Asia) by sailing westward. This eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through this new route. During his first voyage in 1492, he reached the New World instead of arriving in Japan as he had intended, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming all of it for the Crown of Castile. Though preceded by shorter-lived Norse colonies in North America, Columbus is the European explorer credited with establishing and documenting routes to the Americas, securing lasting European ties to the Americas, and inaugurating a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for centuries. His exertions thereby strongly contributed to the development of the modern Western world. He also founded the transatlantic slave trade, and within 25 years of being colonized the population of Hispaniola natives declined, dying from enslavement, massacre or disease. Columbus had set course in hopes of finding a western route to the Indies (Asia). He called the inhabitants of the lands that he visited indios (Spanish for "Indians"). His strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits that he and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

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