Category: Christopher Columbus

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…

Many of the great themes of the modern economic and social realms can be interpreted by addressing the crucial role that the discovery of Columbus has played, and how it reshaped the entire global system. With the discovery of what was later known as the “New World”, the dynamics of different aspects of life, beginning…

Every year Christopher Columbus is known as the greatest explorer of the 15 century and he brought many riches and greats but he also brought many destructions and death to many cultures. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 and was a teenager when he first went to sea to explore. Later on, in 1495, Christopher…

There have been several debates on who discovered America. Columbus Day is a national holiday celebrated every year in many countries for the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival and discovery in America in the year 1492. However, it is known that at least one of these two theories such as the Vikings and Native Americans…

According to Kevin M. Schultz in HIST4, contrary to the first source the explorers that joined with Columbus where found in the Middle and Far East, the second book proved that Columbus was not the one who discovered India Island, the third Alvar Nunez was not the man that forms the tribe, the fourth has…

I have just received word that my friend, Christopher Columbus, just convinced the King and Queen to pay for his voyage. He is hoping that he can find a new route to India. I have been invited to go with him along with 87 other men. We must leave our wives and children at home,…

The 12th of October 1429 was the day that Columbus discovered the native Americas. Their motive was to explore, it wasn’t to spread the word of God. Evidence shows that they conquered the Americas as a way to gain slaves instead of spreading the word of God. A quote from Columbus’s journal states ‘They should…

The discovery of the new world will be an extraordinary discovery initially for Spain and later a disaster. when we look back in the past, it makes us understand that five hundred years before, Spain was a country invaded by fear, and superstition and that any man who dared to dream big was persecuted by…

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,…

On Monday, October 14th, citizens all around America commemorate Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of the new world. However, beneath the American flags and fireworks, many of the horrors of his voyage have gone untold. Throughout his expeditions, Columbus terrorized the Taínos people, which ultimately lead to mass genocide. Christopher Columbus has been regarded as both…