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    race towards finding a trade route to Asia. Christopher Columbus and many other explorer seek funds from Kings,Queens, and wealthy businessman to fund their explorations. After gaining funds from the King and Queen of Spain .Columbus set sail off on August 3, 1492 from Spain to investigate this a all-water route to Asia. This letter written by Columbus foreshadows the clash of two completely different cultures. Columbus’ Letter is Christopher Columbus’ account

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    US have mixed historical and traditional interpretation about the legacy of Christopher Columbus. The history of the famous explorer has been rewritten many times. He was one of the first of many Europeans to land in the New World. He is an Italian explorer whose discovery of the New World— Caribbean– with his crewmen marked the beginning of decades of colonization and trans-Atlantic invasion on the American soil. Columbus sighted the New World, as he intended to sail west hoping to reach Asia through

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    As we all know, the founder of the North America and South America is a voyager whose name is Christopher Columbus. After having read the story of the famous merchant-Marco Polo, he became to looking forward to the land of wealthy and mystery-China. He believed that the earth is round so he decided to sailed west from Europe, then he would reach the Asia. But he didn’t land on the land of the China, he found the new land instead. After he found the America, there are lots of common on his discovery

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    centuries, Christopher Columbus has been recognized and glorified as the founder of America in the US and Spain. As an adolescent, I learned that Columbus, an explorer with unrealistic beliefs about the earth being indeed round and not flat as it was once deemed to be, discovered America and named its natives “Indians.” However, I have grown to realize that this glorified hero Columbus is portrayed as is as realistic as the Easter bunny or tooth fairy. The actual truth about Columbus is far more

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    Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search for the all-water route to Asia, but instead achieved fame for making landfall in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Columbus entered this trade as a young man. In the mid-1470s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Khios, in the Aegean Sea. Settling in Lisbon, where his brother Bartholomew was working as a cartographer,

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    Christopher Columbus is a very important person in our country's history. He found the "New World," the one we live in today. He started the society that makes us who we are today, the society that allowed our ancestors to come to America and start the life that we live now. This whole world owes their lives to him. Columbus should always be remembered as a very important and very good person in history. Columbus made an especially daring trip when he set sail for the Indies. He knew he was headed

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    when Queen Isabella of Spain hired Christopher Columbus, an explorer from another Genoa, Italy, she had a lot to gain for her country from providing means to sponsor his voyage. There are many reasons as to why Queen Isabella would be interested in hiring Columbus to explore new land such as profit to be gained from the exploration like materials and minerals, land, and new knowledge, economic benefits, and religious benefits like the spread of Christianity. Columbus was a very skilled and popular

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    Isabella of Spain finally agreed to grant Christopher Columbus their support to sail around the Earth in hopes of finding a more convenient route to Asia. As we all know, this did not work out. Columbus ended up accidentally “discovering” the New World, which changed the course of history forever since Europe now knew about the existence of another two continents. The king and queen deciding to support Columbus was an unusual occurrence, given that Columbus was not actually Spanish. Obviously, the

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    Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred-ninty-two. He came over from Spain in three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and discovered America, or at least that was what I was taught in elementary school. Since then there has been much controversy going on over the issue of weather or not Christopher Columbus really “discovered” America because when he landed in San Salvador he was not alone. Native Americans already inhabited the land and they had been there long

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    “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”, starts the beginning of one of history’s biggest fabrications. We teach our children to be honest and truthful, but then lie to them for the first six to eight years of their educational lives about their own history. For in fact, Columbus did not discover America and did not unveil the myth regarding the world being flat. At the moment, I have yet to discover if Christopher Columbus ever discovered anything at all. Knowing the meaning

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