The Pioneering Exploration Of The Caribbean Islands By Christopher Columbus

On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina.

Columbus sailed the Atlantic not knowing where he was going; only knowing that he had to find a faster route for Spain to trade their goods and money. When he landed in the New World he had no idea what so ever where he was nor in which direction to go. The New World was filled with Native Americans back then so Columbus was a bit nervous because they were a whole different race to him. He didn’t know if they were friendly or dangerous. Some of the natives were friendly but the ones that weren’t, his men and he had to kill them because they would cause great conflict back in Spain. Columbus was a very tall man with red hair and was 22 years old when he sailed off to the New World. Christopher also came from a very poor family just as Cortes. He had many voyages, and took over large amounts of land. Not all the land he claimed was in the New World some of them were in South

On Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, commanded by Columbus himself, the Pinta under Martín Pinzon, and the Nina under Vicente Yanez Pinzon. After stopping at the Canary Islands, he sailed due west from Sept. 6 until Oct. 7, when he changed his course to the southwest. On Oct. 10 a small rebellion was quelled, and on Oct. 12 he landed on a small island in the Bahamas. He took possessions for Spain and brought natives aboard, discovered other

Christopher Columbus set sail on a voyage out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1942. He led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He had an objective to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies). However, Columbus trip was taking longer than he expected. He kept two logs of his journey, the first was kept a secret. The second log he kept deceive his crew by under-reporting the true distance they had traveled from Spain. The crew caught on to Christopher Columbus deception on October 10th, and Columbus promised his crew if they had not found land in the next two days that they would return home. The next day land was discovered. The voyage almost never happened because Columbus needed his trip to financed, and everyone

Until the sixteenth century, the experts in that period of time believed that it was impossible to sail west across from the Atlantic to Asia. By his adventure, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, proved that they were wrong. However, based on the theory that the earth was a sphere, he thought that he could reach the East Indies by sailing west. He calculated the distance from Portugal to Asia was shorter than to Congo. In fact, the real distance from Portugal to Japan was much further, over ten thousand miles. With his erroneous estimate, he planned a scheme to prove he was right. After several unsuccessful lobbying in Portugal, Spain, even in England and France, eventually, in 1492, he won financing for his journey from Spanish monarchs,

Finally, Columbus and his men found land between October 11-12, 1492 (Columbus, Journal, paragraph 27-29). While they believed that the land they found was the new continent they were in search for, they were wrong. Once on the island Columbus observed the

In his voyage he came upon the Caribbean Islands, and a Native American tribe called the Taino. When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) the Taino Indians were gentle and peaceful and traded with Columbus. Christopher Columbus took the Native Americans for

He knew the world was round so that wasn't why he wanted to set sail. He wanted fame and fortune and he was promised that by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. They were also the ones that funded his journey. He was given everything he would need and he believed it would take about a month to get to where he was headed, but it ended up taking him around three months. He was on his way to Asia but he miscalculated and ended up on the other side of the world instead. The men in his crew were beginning to get frustrated with him. They were running out of food and other supplies, they had not packed enough for the time it was taking them. Maybe Columbus wasn't a good as a sailor as he thought he was, because he didn't have a successful journey. Yes, he find a new piece land that for them had not been discovered yet, but he only found it because he got lucky. He was looking for Asia and landed somewhere

To fully understand the motives behind Columbus and his idea of sailing westward, you have to look at the time period in which he lived. He lived during a time

Christopher Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa,Italy, believed that sailing to the west across the Atlantic Ocean was the shortest and fastest sea route to the continent of Asia. Columbus did not realize that the western hemisphere is between Europe and Asia. This led to Columbus making the assumption that the Earth was a third of its actual size. Like many others in this time period, Christopher Columbus was unbothered by the political allegiances. He was willing to sail for whatever country would sponsor his voyage. However, he could never find a patron due to his arrogance or ambition. On August 2,1492, Columbus sent 3 ships which were accompanied by crews of eighty-seven men. These men made landfall on October 12th,1492, on the island of San Salvador. He made another voyage and explored present day Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Columbus made two more voyages made between the years of 1498 and 1500 to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. Months after he explored present day Cuba and Hispaniola Christopher Columbus found significant amounts of gold. Many of Christopher Columbus’ successes created potential conflict between Spain and Portugal. There are many reasons why the Spanish Monarch hired Columbus to find another route to Asia, however the main reasons are to get the Queen and King more land, riches, and crops.

The accidental and unexpected voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 brought the age of colonization, exploration, and development to Western European, African, and American societies. This voyage proved to be a momentous turning point in history by connecting the previously isolated Americas to the rest of the world and their advancements. The transformations that followed demonstrated the benefits that some societies gained, as well as, show other societies that were profoundly weakened, damaged, or destroyed in the process.

Columbus was both a navigator and explorer, born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He grew up as the son of a middle class weaver and as a teenager he first took an interest in seafaring life. As a young boy, he attended trading voyages between the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. His first expedition to the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 was almost fatal. French privateers attacked the commercial fleet Columbus was traveling with and his ship burned down, leaving him to swim for his life. He washed up on a Portuguese shore and found his way to Lisbon. He furnished himself a niche there but eventually moved to Spain. He started his journies to gain information about the Atlantic currents and continued to seek faster trade routes across world

Christopher Columbus, an experienced seafarer, left landmark achievements in various destinations he set foot in. He made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain and he mistakenly thought there was a quicker route to Asia. It turned out he landed on two unknown continents (Jane, pg.6). In the event of making journeys, he accidentally came across to natives where he taught the spirit of exploration injecting a great deal in America's global economy. The journey started at the beginning of different acts like colonization.

Just as everyone was getting discouraged they finally hit land on October 12th, 1492. They would find what is knowns as the Bahamas, but they called it the New World. Once they arrived on the island Columbus came across a group called Tainos. They showed Columbus their gold and even permitted him to take some back to reveal to the Queen. Once he returned to Spain, the findings of the New World allowed him to set sail on another expedition.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer with a big ambition to find the New World. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain funded his first expedition trip in 1492, with the intention to establish an overseas empire. Upon his return to Spain, he gifted the diary of his first voyage to the Monarchy.