The Discovery Of The World

Every schoolchild knows the famous quote “Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. What most children aren’t taught is that Christopher Columbus left an extremely violent and tragic legacy that is not worthy of an annual celebration. Every year, America devotes a holiday to a man who tortured, raped and murdered innocent people. Granted, the expedition Columbus embarked on brought a whole new understanding of the world to the Europeans. However, Christopher Columbus cared very little about establishing trade routes and interacting with foreign cultures. Not only are Americans idolizing a man who was not actually the first to discover their country, they are celebrating a holiday that praises a man who is a murderer, a tyrant and full of greed.

The fifteenth to seventeenth century is known as the “Age of Exploration”. Europe began to colonize the countries they had “discovered”. A major part of the world that they colonized was Latin America. Spain was the first to colonize, and the United States started to take interest in Latin America towards the 19th century. Europe and The United States both took interest in Latin America, but for different reasons.

Exploration of the New World (Americas) became very popular around the 1500’s and beyond. The Spanish were the first of the Old World to find the New World and colonize, and they did so on an Island known as Hispaniola. Of course, this inspired other countries in Europe to do the same, leading up to the English explorers who colonized in Jamestown. Surprisingly, even though these two colonies were settled a little over 100 years apart from each other, they have many similarities and differences.

The Vikings have made great and beautiful things in the past, but one of their biggest accomplishments were their ships. The Vikings had made raids on England, when they were still around, but the only reason they could do this was because of their ships. The Vikings’ ships had overlapping planks, called strakes, and these strakes allowed their ships to take hits from rocks, take long trade trips, and survive ocean storms.

The longship represented the pinnacle of Norse shipbuilding techniques in the Viking Age and contributed immeasurably to the success of raiding and Viking expansion

Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas set the precedent for the European conquest of it. In fact, his tactics of taking land, wealth, and labor from the indigenous populations were carried out by many of the Europeans who later came to the Americas. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, whose country eventually benefited from this endeavor, financially supported Columbus. However, not all people included benefited from Columbus’ ‘discovery’ of the Americas. It also led to the decimation of several populations of indigenous peoples. Bartlomé de Las Casas provided a first hand account of the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola. In his account, Las Casas states “the multitude of people who had originally lived on [Hispaniola]… was consumed at such a rate that in those eight years ninety percent had perished.” Furthermore, Adam Smith reported that “to the natives, however… all the commercial benefits which can have resulted from [the discovery of America] have been sunk and lost in the dreadful misfortunes which they have occasioned.” Through comparing these sources from different time periods and regions, we can confirm that Columbus’ discovery of the Americas led to drastic consequences for the Native Americans, whilst improving the quality of life and economic standing for Europeans.

The Vikings were well-known for their creation which integrated metal works, woodcrafts, figurines, tusk, earthenware, crystal, as well as books. In Zemljanoe Gorodishche, there are many specimens of trinket, adornment, apparel, comb, recreation collections, sacred objects, stallion harnesses, armaments and objects with decay, which contain the legendary dragon head, a diminutive statue of a female, as well as two charms with mysterious engraving. Parallel discoveries happened at Jorvik which produced kitchenware, basins, recreational fragments, adornment also horn combs. Archaeological site of Viking Dublin consist of timber mixer, trowels, cords of tree twigs, barriers of thicket fences, blades of lumber, intertwining slabs of ivory, in addition

Viking long-ships were lean, speedy, lightweight ships that could easily cut through the most vicious waves that the ocean could throw at them. The Norse people were separated from mainland Europe by the North Sea. As their nation advanced they built longships and started exploring the ocean. “The Viking longboat was the key to the Vikings success in traveling.” (Legends and Chronicles, Paragraph 14). This made the long-ship a very valuable and important asset to the Vikings. The longships were so fast and nimble, they were great for transportation of soldiers and merchandise.At the time, no other civilization had been able to achieve such an amazing naval feat. this gave the Vikings a great advantage over medieval combat, political affairs, and even the trading industry.

The innovation is not around today; however, its existence spurred the creation of other medieval European ships and aspect of its design can be still seen today, such as with the common speedboat. Not until Medieval times was the superiority of the longship able to be surpassed by “mainland Europe’s later advancements in shipbuilding, where the taller, more powerful ships dominated over the short and swift Viking craft” (“Viking-Age History). Nevertheless, no other watercraft can ever compare to the glory of the longship, with its ingenuity and its versatile design in being able to travel both forwards and backwards, and having the fastest traveling speeds of its day. The longship allowed the Vikings to “colonize, trade and ultimately extend the boundaries of the medieval world”, which changed the course of history (“Viking Ships -

The Vikings perfected the hull of the sailboat. And at some other place at the same time

Viking ships were a huge part of ancient history. Vikings are known for one of the greatest warrior cultures ever. Vikings valued the gift of strength and power and you could definitely see this in their ship building designs. These long ships on the sea gave many people fear of setting foot on the water. Vikings made strong and powerful designs on the head of the ships to scare away anything in their way. Most of the time the ship design would be a dragon head that was the Vikings symbol.

A great man once said, “Don’t let anyone tell you that you are marked, that you cannot overcome a past that failed to shine. You can.” This great man was Vernon L. Smith, author of Discovery — A Memoir. Smith grew up through the Great Depression and World War II, and in 2002, was awarded the Nobel prize for his contributions to experimental economics. In his memoir, Smith expresses that through his life experiences, his desire to learn and educate, and his contributions to experimental economics, he enjoyed the adventure of discovery.

The Bronze age of Scandinavia, taking place from 1750-500 BC, is characterized by the start of bedrock carvings of huge ships, the large sudden spread of amber in Mycenaean graves, and appearance of bronze (Morner and Lind 2015). The early Scandinavian and Baltic region practiced an early burial structure that was shaped as a ship, or ship setting, using large monumental rocks (Sparavigina 2012). This burial structure, seen as the outline of a ship from aerial views, surrounds graves, using either tight or loose large stones (Sparavigninal 2012). While these ship settings can vary in size, the archaeological

He notices the sun catching the detailing on the woodwork he remembers his cousins would carefully detail carve with careful woodworking skills, strange it was almost too attractive for a fishing vessel he thought but boy did it look awesome. He actually remembers the oak trees and stumps where his grandfathers used to take him and say, “this is where great ships are born” and “it’s the hull shape and quality wood that makes for a great Viking ship – remember that for the rest of your life”, proudly his grandfather would talk about the makings for a true masterpiece for sailing as opposed to the “Junk Canoes” he said that would visit from other settlements.

Everyone always says that the Universe is huge; infinitely big, they tell us, so big that even the most powerful telescopes that human-kind has made can 't even come close to showing us half of it, let alone the entire thing. Of course, we 've certainly come along way from thinking we were the center of the Universe, though now scientists say we 're closer than we ever have been before.