Christopher Columbus System

In 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the country of Spain. This was in the Age of Exploration, in which countries (primarily Spain and Portugal) were fighting to explore everything in the world possible. During this line, there was a line of demarcation to define exactly where each country could and could not explore. When Columbus left, he intended to find the country of Indians, but instead, he found a whole new continent of North America. When he landed, he was sure that he was in India and named the people he saw Indians. Little did Columbus know, he was in a whole new country. Had Columbus had a system of GPS, he would have known which way to get to India and if he had a cellular phone (along with …show more content…
An example of this would be the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship, which can complete a transatlantic cruise in seven days. The thing that makes the ship much more useful than a GPS or a phone is that even if there was no GPS, his crew could travel anywhere in little time. They would also have a quick trip back to tell Ferdinand and Isabella about the find and for more supplies. Speaking of supplies, the amount of supplies this cruise ship could carry as opposed to Columbus’ ship that was a small wooden ship. Speaking of extra supplies, these supplies could have been given to all of extra passengers the cruise ship allowed. As an economy booster for Spain, residents of the country could have placed bids on spots on the once of a lifetime voyage with Christopher Columbus himself. They could also help him explore which would be a two in one benefit for Spain. One thing Columbus is known for is having large scale conflicts with Native Americans. With this ship he could have stored more mercenaries to fight off the Native Americans as he was exploring. He also could have had separate parts of the ship with only sick people and doctors, because of all of the diseases spreading around this