How Did Christopher Columbus Culture Have An Impact On American Culture

Columbus, Spanish settlers, and English settlers directly impacted the Native Americans and Africans. First, Columbus impacted the Native Americans he met when he travelled back and forth to the Indies, between the times 1492 and 1504. Columbus travelled to the Indies to find and govern land, and to also make money. Doing so, Columbus severely punished Indians for not hitting harsh quotas of gold, he sold them into slavery, and he, his crew, and other Spanish settlers unintentionally brought infectious diseases. Because of this, the Native Americans suffered forced labor and great casualties, thus extremely altering their lifestyles. Second, English settlers began to affect the Native Americans when they arrived to Virginia in 1607. When the

Christopher Columbus, just like many others, had aspirations. He did what he needed to do before reaching his goals and that was to strive hard and live life by following his dream. While Christopher Columbus espied to find a sea route to Asia and failed, he did discover a new continent. His discovery inspired a generation of exploration. Columbus mobilized one of the greatest migrations the world has ever seen.

Christopher Columbus is an internationally celebrated explorer, due to his voyages to Central America during the Age of Discovery, a period between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when explorers were sponsored by eastern countries to claim land. Columbus was an Italian explorer, on a conquest for gold and riches, who was sponsored by the monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, to travel to Southern Asia. Columbus proposed the idea of traveling from East to West, rather than traveling along the borders of countries and continents, such as Africa and Asia, to eastern countries for gold, spices, and other riches for the monarchs. When Columbus succeeded in landing in the New World, he believed he landed in Southern Asia, but rather he landed in Hispaniola, modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic. The “New World” was a term used for the area Columbus landed in, on October 12, 1492. When Columbus landed in the New World, it was inhabited by native people, who were used by the Spaniards to help navigate and understand the landscape of the islands and as workers to find gold. Columbus has a mixed legacy because he had positive and negative attributes; he made the Columbian Exchange, which increased biodiversity in the New World, and is an important explorer in American history, but also began the African slave trade and caused population devastation due to slavery and diseases in the native populations. The legacy of Christopher Columbus should be remembered as a villain because he was greedy for wealth and power, he introduced diseases to the New World, and enslaved and used violence against the natives.

After his voyage to San Salvador, he then made 3 other voyages to Cuba, The Bahamas, and Hispaniola. Although he was searching for unexplored land, he was also looking for gold which he was unsuccessful in finding. Also in his travels he planned on converting the Indians to Christianity. In Columbus’s entire life he never believed that he had found a new continent. His final voyage was to Jamaica which ended because of a ship wreck. When he was rescued, he was delusional and once he arrived back in Europe, he soon passed away.

Christopher Columbus changed the culture of the Indians as he forced, captured, and enslaved most of them. Natives that were forced into labor had to gather gold and if they didn’t wear a copper coin had their hands chopped off and bled to death. Captured natives were forced on to ships and were transported to Europe for slavery but more than half of them died on the way. Natives that were enslaved had to do long hardworking labor and would also have been raped by the soldiers of columbus. The Natives resulted in revolt against these crimes against them. Indians would go against Columbus’s men by either running away or fighting back to reclaim their land. Most runaways were chased down by dogs and killed. The Natives that fought back were

The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really “discover” the New World because millions of people already lived there, Columbus name is often associated with the "discovery" of the Americas, Columbus was hardly the first person to set foot on the continents. Native Americans had lived throughout North and South America before Columbus arrived, and Norse explorers landed on Newfoundland at least 500 years before Columbus's first voyage. Even though he wasn't the first European to visit the Americas, however,

Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator and explorer. In hopes to find a new passageway to India, he sailed across the Atlantic, in the Santa Maria. The purpose of Christopher Columbus's voyage was to find a quicker route to Asia; however, Columbus failed in this attempt. Instead of finding Asia, he found the “New World”. Columbus is known for opening up the Americas to new European colonization. Columbus proved to the Spanish monarchy how many advantages there would be if they agreed to work through their foreign relationship.

“Following the light from the sun, we left the Old World.” Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic. As Christopher led an exploration of the new world, it opened the possibilities to Spain’s rise in global power, the spread of Christianity, and the start of the Columbian Exchange.

The Europeans had long fantasied about the “new world”. A world that had blossomed with dreams filled with silver and gold. So they set up ships and sailed the ocean to make a new journey. Some say that the motivation for their voyage was “God, glory, and gold.” But whatever their motivation was, it made a massive impacted and created the world that we live in today, America!

Christopher Columbus, discoverer of what today is America, dies in the belief of having found a new sea route to India

Christopher Columbus, one of the discoverers of America, was from Genève, Italy. At the time, Europe traded with the East through the route discovered by Marco Polo, however it was extremely long and difficult to cross. Columbus believed he could find a short cut by going west. After being finance by the Spanish monarchy, Columbus set out on a ship called the Santa Maria, followed by two smaller ships, the Pinta and Nina. Initially, he sought to arrive in India; however he reached America, believing he had reached India. He returned several times, but he died in poverty, never knowing that he in fact had reached a new continent. My previous knowledge of Columbus and his journey came from American and Brazilian schools I went to. After reading

There are many explorers who have influence history, however, there are few who have a major role on the establishment of certain countries. Christopher Columbus is one who changed the perception of the American continents for the European countries. Through his four significant voyages he not only discovered new landmasses, but he also initiated Spanish colonization and he had a major role on the establishment of new societies. However, his work was not easy to accomplish. Christopher Columbus faced a lot of struggle to get the support of the Spanish and Portuguese governments, which were great empires at the time. When he finally succeeded in getting a grant, which funded his travel, he began his travel to discover Asia for its spices and condiments. However, he ended up discovering America. Even though he was not the first to discover America, Christopher Columbus was the one who open the gateway between Europe and America and paved the way for the exploration and conquest of America by the Europeans (Christopher Columbus Biography 1).

Christopher columbus was a major pioneer in european exploration & colonization, kicking of the newly discovered (by Columbus) “new world”. Columbus set sail to the new world (or Asia as he’d thought) in 1492, after he'd been rejected multiple times by multiple royalties. The only one who accepted his seemingly absurd plan to travel west rather than east to reach asia was the king and queen of spain. They saw the possible gain that could come of the expedition to find a shorter route to asia, and thus his journey had begun. Once he had departed europe, it took a tedious 3 months to finally hear they’d hit shore. He reported that he’d seemingly “found India” telling of the indigenous people, flora and fauna, bringing a pepper back to show his

Christopher Columbus was one of many explorers who set out to find a quicker route to Asia to take advantage of trade goods from the East Indies. His voyages across the Atlantic Ocean had a great effect on history. According to Lutz, “Most American school children learn to recite this little phrase: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” (p. 1). Columbus set out to find a water route west from Europe to Asia, but was not successful. His plan was to sail west to reach the East believing the earth to be a sphere. Although experts agreed that the voyage would be uninterrupted, his distance estimation would prove incorrect. Christopher Columbus was not the first person to explore the Americas, but the effects of his voyages will forever remain a crucial piece of history. His plan would change the world forever.

Although nearly every phase of any exploration had its good and bad outcomes the benefits of Columbus' discovery of the New World far outweigh the negative results of that enterprise; because his discovery stimulated further development of both Europe and the New World. His voyage was an epochal and magnificent discovery in that it confirmed the roundness of the earth and gave new validity to science, expanded trade and opened new markets and led to the industrialization of Europe, and opening the doors to a new world because the Old World was overcrowded and torn by strife. Columbus' did not just discover land and resources rather he discovered the New World. A New World that offered hope, freedom, and a new