Category: Christopher Columbus

During the Age of Exploration, many explorers set out on expeditions to search for land for each of their investors. One explorer that is commonly known as the famous Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus wrote “The Journal of the First Voyage to America” to attempt to convince the Spanish Monarchy to subsidize his…

In the past, European countries came to the Americas looking to build their empire and gain power. They were competing to be the most powerful country and improve their economic lives. In the drive to be the most powerful European country, they started colonizing the Americas. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who…

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer born in Genoa, Italy between August 26 and October 31, 1451, and was determined to find a direct water route from Europe to Asia, but instead, stumbled across America. When Columbus was young, he assisted his father, Domenico Colombo, at his cheese stand. Columbus’s mother was Susanna Fontanarossa. Columbus…

The first time Christopher Columbus speaks about Christianity, he mentions the conversion of the Native Americans. He talks about how he believes that the way to help the conversion go smoothly, is to show kindness and not convert them through force. Therefore, he gave them gifts and in return, the Native Americans offered them gifts…

One of Zinn’s 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 Columbus’s 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 Europe’s knowledge of the globe and would set the stage for an economic system that continues to…

The following will investigate what kickstarted the Voyages of Discovery; and what impact these voyages had on society today, concerning the voyages of Christopher Columbus, what motivated him to begin his journeys, and how they changed the face of the earth. The Age of Exploration was a period in which European society adopted a drive…

Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage to the Americas in 1492 marked the beginning of a profound global exchange known as the Columbian Exchange. This informative essay explores the significance, impact, and far-reaching consequences of Columbus’s journey and the resulting exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures between the Old World and the New World. Thesis Statement Christopher…