Christopher Columbus

(noun)

An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the monarchy of Spain that led to general European awareness of the American continents.

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Examples of Christopher Columbus in the following topics:

  • Spanish Exploration

    • The voyages of Christopher Columbus initiated European exploration and colonization of the American continents that eventually turned Spain into the most powerful European empire.
    • In 1498, Columbus left port with a fleet of six ships.
    • In the treaty, the Portuguese received everything outside Europe east of a line that ran 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese), and the islands reached by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Spain; Cuba and Hispaniola).
    • A scene of Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to the Queen of Spain on his departure for the New World, August 3, 1492.
    • Outline the successes and failures of Christopher Columbus during his four voyages to the Americas

  • Europe's Early Trade Links

    • The book inspired Christopher Columbus and many other travelers.
    • Global exploration started with the successful Portuguese travels to the Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, the coast of Africa, and the sea route to India in 1498; and, on behalf of the Crown of Castile (Spain), the trans-Atlantic Voyages of Christopher Columbus between 1492 and 1502 as well as the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519–1522.

  • The Silk Road

    • A lasting effect of this was to inspire Europeans to find alternate routes to Asia for trade, including Christopher Columbus' famous overseas voyage in 1492.

  • The Aztec in the Colonial Period

    • The conquest must be understood within the context of Spanish patterns on the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista by Christians, defeating the Muslims, and also patterns extended in the Caribbean following Christopher Columbus establishment of permanent European settlement in the Caribbean.

  • England and the High Seas

    • Cabot sailed in 1497, five years after Europeans reached America, and although he successfully made landfall on the coast of Newfoundland (mistakenly believing, like Christopher Columbus, that he had reached Asia), there was no attempt to found a colony.

  • The Silo D'Oro

    • It begins no earlier than 1492, with the end of the Reconquista, the sea voyages of Christopher Columbus to the New World, and the publication of Antonio de Nebrija's Grammar of the Castilian Language.

  • Elizabeth I and English Patriotism

    • After the travels of Christopher Columbus electrified all of western Europe, England joined in the colonization of the New World.

  • Portuguese Explorers

    • He did what Christopher Columbus tried to do but failed.

  • The Rise of Classical Greece

    • Modern bust of Cleisthenes, known as "the father of Athenian democracy", on view at the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio.

  • The Bantu Migration

    • The western branch, not necessarily linguistically distinct, according to Christopher Ehret, followed the coast and the major rivers of the Congo system southward, reaching central Angola by around 500 BCE.