11/29/2023 0 Comments Christopher columbus explorationAfter the Granada War, and Columbus's persistent lobbying in multiple kingdoms, the Catholic Monarchs Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II agreed to sponsor a journey west. He developed a plan to seek a western sea passage to the East Indies, hoping to profit from the lucrative spice trade. Largely self-educated, Columbus was knowledgeable in geography, astronomy, and history. He later took a Castilian mistress, Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, who bore a son, Ferdinand. He married Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, who bore a son Diego, and was based in Lisbon for several years. Growing up on the coast of Liguria, he went to sea at a young age and travelled widely, as far north as the British Isles and as far south as what is now Ghana. Who he met in the new world in the next video.The name Christopher Columbus is the anglicisation of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. Island that he called Hispianola which is today the island of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And then he continued toĮxplore around the coast of Cuba that he called Juana. That he named San Salvador which is today in the Bahamas. And in October of 1492 he made landfall, and this is what he found. And in August of 1492 he takes off, makes a brief stop in the Canary Islands, and then turns west into open waters. They give him three shipsĪnd a crew of 87 men. And Ferdinand and IsabellaĪgree that they will stake him. He also tries France andĮngland with similar results. Portuguese because they are the reigning leaders of navigation. So Columbus has this dreamĪnd he kind of shops it around the courts of Europe Got very lucky because about 3,000 miles to the west of Europe he encountered landfall. Was about 3,000 miles to the west of Europe. Some different calculations and he thought that theĬircumference of the world was only about 16 to 18,000 miles. Supplies and die long before you ever hit land 'cause they had no idea that the Americas were over here. Sail out here into the ocean, you would run out of Pretty close to the truth, and that even if you could Was about 25,000 miles in circumference, which is Had known that the world was round since the time That the world was flat and Columbus proved them wrong. The other myth aboutĬolumbus is that he was the lone visionary who knew Impact on colonization that Columbus's voyage would have. Well known outside of Norway, so it didn't have the worldwide The viking settlement in the Americas did not last very long, less than a generation. "Okay, well if the vikings "discovered America, whyĪren't we talking about "the vikings in this video?" And the short answer is Had colonized Greenland and had explored around In fact we know that around 1000 CE the vikings of Norway Was the first European to discover the Americas. Myths about Columbus that I'd like to dispel. People living in Asia to Christianity, and teaming up with them in a new crusade to expel Riches, silk and spices, and maybe even converting And Columbus dreamt of getting to China and there accessing Read with great interest was the account of Marco PoloĪnd his travels in China. Reader thanks to the invention of the printing press back in 1450. And he had sailed quite a bit in his life. He was born around 1451 we think in Genoa, which is today in Italy. So who was Christopher Columbus? Well, he was a navigator. Moment that they received an interesting proposalįrom this man here, Christopher Columbus. With Ferdinand and Isabella, completed its campaign toĮxpel Muslims from Spain, the Reconquista, in 1492Īnd began to look outward for an opportunity toĬompete with Portugal. Last video we discussed how the Portuguese began to really expand their exploration around Africa with the invention of the caravel, a fast new ship thatĬould sail into the wind, and how Spain, newly united
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