Christopher Columbus And The Spaniards

The Spanish began exploring America with “gold, glory and God” large in their minds. Cortes and the

Christopher columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and a colonizer. He was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. the master navigator transatlantic voyages opened the way for European exploration and colonization of America. Was it a good thing when he opened the way for exploration?

The Four Voyages, is an instantaneous account each single voyage taken by Christopher Columbus, what he and his men stumbled upon in the New World, and the long-standing effects these European conquistadors did face throughout it. Throughout Columbus 's life as an explorer he went on four great voyages and made many great discoveries. Christopher Columbus’s four voyages were both that of exploration and imperialism. The lands which he discovered, he claimed not only for himself, but also for the Spanish Crown, although he had very minimal idea as to where their exact location were. All through the end of his existence Columbus continued to believe that Cuba, Hispaniola (which now consists of the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and the “Indies” which compromised of many other islands located someplace off of Chinas coast, and possible stops to the kingdom of the Great Khan who over 200 hundred years prior, Marco Polo had written about.

It has been taught that in,"1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue". However, this does not mean that he was the first European to reach the New World. As we know it, Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer, discovered the New World before Columbus. That is the subject in which this paper is highlighting.

        Christopher Columbus was the first to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. He was born in Italy, 1451, but he sailed for Spain. Columbus was well educated, and soon became a well known young man. Like many sailors, he wanted to be the one to find the route to the Orient. On  the first his expeditions he sailed on the Nina, the Pinta and the St. Maria. On October 12, 1492, he sighted land after a threat of mutiny from his crew. Columbus thought he had reached the Orient, but he had actually reached an island, which he claimed for Spain and called it San Salvador. He met the people there and made the well-known

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a westward route to Asia. During the time of Christopher Columbus, the late 1400’s to early 1500’s, land across the Atlantic Ocean was yet to be discovered. Though, it was believed that there was a route across the Atlantic Ocean that would lead to Asia. Christopher Columbus took interest in searching for a route across the Atlantic Ocean. With the help of the Spanish government, Columbus was granted with a charter that would give him the means to make his his journey across the Atlantic. The Charter gave him permission to colonize and it gave him supplies such as ships and a crew of men to sail his ship. The charter greatly assisted him in making his journey. He sailed and traveled under the charter of Spain with the objective to find a route to Asia and to expand the spice trade through creating a new trade route, but along with his objective he was to complete for Spain, he also had a personal purpose for his journey. He sailed with his desire and passion to discover new things outside of the bounds that the people of his time believed, to discover a new place of salvation-the new world. Columbus arrived on the coast of the caribbean and was successful in completing his journey across the Atlantic Ocean. He claimed this territory the West Indies, and he prided himself in his discovery of the new world.

Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan may have given us the beginnings of globalization some 500 years ago in the Renaissance, but these centuries later, the people of the world still have difficulty communicating with each other.

Most people think of Christopher Columbus as the person who discovered the Americas. However, Leif Ericson, a Viking, was the first European to see the Americas. “Christopher Columbus - born Cristoforo Colombo but was called in Spain Cristobal Colon”(Heat-Moon 4) was born to Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa sometime between August 25 and October 31, 1451 in Italy near Genoa (Heat-Moon 4). “Christopher Columbus had four other siblings; Bartholomew Columbus, Bianchinetta Columbus, Giacomo Columbus, and Giovanni Pellegrino Columbus(Phillips 64). “Christopher spent some of his early years at his father’s trade of weaving and later he became a sailor on the Mediterranean [Sea]” (Christopher Columbus 2). “By the

Little may one know about Christopher Columbus, other than the fact that “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492”. Even though he was claimed to have discovered the Americas, he was never the first to arrive there because (according to historians) the Vikings were there first. But, his discovery led other people in Europe know about the Americas therefore changing the world. Columbus shaped the world as we know it today.

Columbus noticed that some of these Indians had little golden ornaments in their noses and ears, This made him take some of the Arawak Indians that they help prisoner onto the ship and insisted they guide him to where they were the source of the gold was, this had lead him to sail to what is now Cuba then to Hispaniola.# There bits of gold were visible in the rivers. Columbus and his crew built a fort and left thirty-nine crew members there to collect gold and store all they would find.

Cristosfor Colombo who we all know today as Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in the year of 145. He was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer. According to research Christopher completed four voyages across the Atlantic. In 1485 Columbus went to Spain, where he resided for nearly seven years trying to get funding from Isabella I of Castile. In 1942, while preparing to go to France, he attempted to get approval one last time and it was a success. An agreement between the queen and Columbus had set the terms for expedition.

In the 15th and 16th century, the number one objective for the Europeans was to expand their trade route to Asia. Therefore, in their effort the Crusades increases trade between Europe and the Far East even more than they increased knowledge (Reich, 2011, p. 4). Overwhelmingly, the following items started landing on Europeans tables such as; cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, pepper, velvet, spices, china, and perfumes (Reich, 2011, p. 4). The Europeans became experience navigators and began to master the world’s oceans and wind patterns and ultimately created a European-centered World economy (Overview of the Colonial Era, “n.d.”). One famous sailor name Christopher Columbus, believe that he can decrease the trade route from Europe to East

In the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Las Casas, and Raleigh, three motives for exploration of the new world in the 1500’s become obvious; glory for oneself, glory for God, and glory for country. Columbus and Vespucci’s motive for self glory are shown by the way the discuss their actions, Las Casas spends the majority of his time writing about how religion could save the indigenous population, showing his own motives, while Raleigh clearly lays out how exploration of the new world could improve Great Britain’s standing against Spain and its empire in the new world.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, Italian-born but is funded by a Spanish monarch, set sail across the Atlantic ocean hoping to find a direct passage from Europe to India and Asia. Instead of finding a sailing route to India and Asia, he instead came upon America. He mistook America for India and named the citizens he found “Indians”. He then proceeded to sail back to the Spanish monarch where they decided to fund three more voyages (CCHC). However, one question over time has arisen. Why would a Spanish monarch support Italian-born Columbus instead of Spanish explorers? The answer is God, glory, and gold.

Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the Americas in 1492, and from then on various encounters between Columbus, along with other conquistadores, and the Native Americans took place. These encounters helped to shape centuries of debates over the meaning of the ‘human’ and ‘humanity’, with arguments over who is human and who needs to be made human. This essay will argue that these encounters created a language of superiority within these debates, basing conceptions of the ‘human’ on racial, religious, and cultural distinctions, and how they interrelate. Furthermore, we can see the impact of such encounters in contemporary definitions of ‘human’ and in the actions and attitudes towards those who have been, and continue to be, left out of such definitions. This issue is significant as the essay will argue that this debate is ongoing and still affects different groups of people today. This argument will be made through analysing the different types of encounters and the different sides of the debates around them. First, this essay will explore the conquistadores’ policy of assimilation. The second section will then focus on the removal of Native Americans, with the third addressing enslavement. Finally, it will conclude with the argument that these different encounters constructed a language of hierarchy which shaped debates on who gets to be labelled ‘human’.