The Causes Of Christopher Columbus's Voyage To The Continent Of North America?

Originally of the Italian descent Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish were the dominant group of settlers in the New World for over a century or so. They were also abundant with natural resources like silver, as well the labor provided by the Native Americans created an immense amount of wealth for Spain. Excluding Brazil, the Spanish expanded throughout Central and South America even including Southern and Western parts of today’s United States, and the Caribbean Islands as well. However, due to the sheer amount of wealth created from the New World, forced European countries to eventually develop their own interests in settlements. In the late 1500’s, the English began their own mild exploration but their first permanent settlement was

1492 makes the correct start of the time period. Although North America was discovered by Scandinavians around 1000 CE, knowledge of the continent was left to fade into legend. Columbus, in an ill-advised attempt to

Until the late 1400's, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, exploring the other side of the Atlantic was like exploring an entire different world, hence the name- the New World. In 1492, Christopher Columbus unknowingly discovered the new continent. His original motives for exploring was to find an easier route to Asia but instead, he discovered the New World. Thus; Spain, France and England began sending out conquistadors and explorers to the uncharted terrains of the new continent. Motives for the Spanish, French, and English explorers varied greatly, however, they were similar in some ways. The motives of the Spanish explorers were acquisition of

The legacy of Christopher Columbus has been a divisive topic for many years. Indeed, according to Laurence Bergreen, the Columbian legacy has been divisive since the time of his voyages. In an excerpt from his book Columbus: The Four Voyages, Laurence Bergreen juxtaposes his extensive historical knowledge with a deep understanding of modern American culture to demonstrate that, for all his successes and failures, Columbus is significant as a reminder that we are all deeply complex and contradictory beings.

Even though Columbus was not the first person to step foot in the America’s, he was the first person, from the Eastern Hemisphere, to discover it. For example, when we discover a new species on an island, we may not have known that it existed, but the other living creatures there knew that it did. While Rebecca Dobbs in Document B is right that the Americas were not empty by any stretch of imagination and people lived there and knew about this part of the world, others did not know about it. However, in a letter to Queen Isabelle, Columbus states that they have landed on an island and the people there

In the 1500s, the Conquistadors came to the new world from Europe. After the Conquistadors came and conquered the new world many Native Americans fell ill with the diseases brought from Europe. After the Europeans entered the new world an estimated 15 to 20 million Native Americans died (doc 5). A majority of these deaths were due to the introduction of smallpox from Europe to the new world (doc 5). This is because the majority of the Native American population did not have the immunity to these diseases as the

Columbus, the first Spanish explorer to reach America, initially thought that the he had landed in the East Indies, which had been his ultimate goal. “His sea wanderings would have been written off as an expensive failure, once it was realized that he had not found the illusive water route to India, had it not been for the discovery of gold on Hispaniola in 1493”(Nash, 18). Once it became known that there were gold and other precious metals on this continent, people from Spain began to journey to America in hopes of gaining immense wealth. The Spanish claimed Panama, Mexico, parts of South America, and southern areas of what is now North America and these expeditions were typically led by military figures. The Spanish viewed America as land to be conquered and they viewed Native Americans

These epidemics occurred in areas with extensive Spanish contact and slaving networks (pg. 14). Reséndez credits the conquest of the native tibes and the Indian slave trade with the depopulation of the Caribbean and the introduction of European diseases to the New World (Reséndez, conversation in HIST 900, 2017). The Spanish were the devastation that all but wiped out the native populations in the Caribbean and along the Caribbean costs of North America. They were the epidemic that depopulated the New World.

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” One of the first things we learned in primary school was that Christopher Columbus discovered America, they also made us read Christopher 's Journals (1493) such as: “ They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks ' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Here he was describing what he encountered with the “Taino indigenous peoples of Hispaniola.” However, we as students never questioned how is it Columbus “discovered” America. In his journals (1493) he states that he encountered people that lived there before he arrived, even though it wasn 't really America. The word discover is defined as “ to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time.” There is evidence that validate Columbus did not discover America. One evidence that validates Columbus did not discover America is the inaccuracy in his studies. Columbus and his cohorts believed and

Many people believe believed throughout history that the beginning of North America’s inhabitance was when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the year 1492. They believed that he is the person who discovered America where in fact it was the Native Americans who made the initial discovery. Therefore, Columbus’s mission is considered more of a journey. One of the motivators behind the voyage was to move away from Britain and begin a new life in what was to them, land of potential opportunity.

The New World In 1492 a man named Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean to come across what they later learned to be the Americas or the “New World”. Columbus thought he had reached India, therefore calling the Natives, Indians. The interactions between the Native Americans and colonists from Spain, England, and France would shape American history as we know it today, the good and bad.

Even though Columbus did find his way to the Americas, it was not North America he discovered. In fact, he never stepped foot in the United States during his four expeditions. Columbus actually made landfall in various islands located in what is now known as the Bahamas, which had hundreds of thousands Native American inhabitants that had already made

Nothing had a greater impact on relations between Natives and newcomers in the Americas than the Spread of epidemic diseases.

Columbus wasn’t the first to discover the New World, but he was the first to bring attention to it according to document eight. Without this discovery it would have been a lot later before the New World would have been discovered causing the U.S and other countries to be behind the well-established countries. According to document eight without Columbus discovering the New World the natives could have very well starved, because the natives were still hunter-gatherers. This discovery also brought a better understanding of how the Earth is shaped and how the continents are arranged.

Christopher Columbus took a total of four voyages, his intent was to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach Asia because he thought it would be would be shorter, safer, and less expensive than going around Africa to the Indies. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who ruled Spain at the time, funded his first voyage and promised “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” as long as he brought back riches and claimed land for Spain (Meltzer 67). On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with his three ships and ninety men and headed for the Canary Islands. After leaving the Canary Islands, he landed on the Bahamas what he thought was the coast of China. On Christmas Eve, one of his ships, the Santa María, was wrecked on the north