Remember that day in school when your history teacher said Christopher Columbus discovered America? Well, they were wrong. Christopher Columbus was a Genoese sailor who wanted to find a western route to the Indies. He made four voyages, each taking him to different locations in the Caribbean. He sailed under Spain and his voyages were sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Along his voyages he encountered storms and the Santa Maria broke into pieces. He met very many natives and explored their land. I believe Christopher Columbus did not discover North America, I believe this because his locations were not in North America, other people lived in and reached North America, and there are misconceptions about Columbus and his
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He also sailed to Panama on his last voyage. If you were to look on a map of Columbus’s voyages you would see that Panama is southwest from the Caribbean. You would also notice that he is getting farther away from North America. That’s not the only thing taking him farther away away from reaching North America. “On December 25, the Santa María ran aground… (Minster,1).” This happened after the ship landed on San Salvador, Cuba, and Hispaniola, which are islands. We can tell that the Santa Maria did not reach North America because it landed on some islands not a continents. Now that we are discussing the ships I want to tell you interesting information.”Little is known about either ship (Lee,1).” The article is referring to the Nina and Pinta. This leads me to believe that these ships did not discover North America because we would have some evidence that they touched our continent. It also arouses the question, if we don't know a lot about the ships do we really know a lot about Columbus? Now I would like to take a look at some of the maps of his voyages. On Britannica Kids it shows the map of all of his voyages. It also shows Columbus not touching North America at all. When comparing the Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta’s routes in the intro of “The story of
He also sailed to Panama on his last voyage. If you were to look on a map of Columbus’s voyages you would see that Panama is southwest from the Caribbean. You would also notice that he is getting farther away from North America. That’s not the only thing taking him farther away away from reaching North America. “On December 25, the Santa María ran aground… (Minster,1).” This happened after the ship landed on San Salvador, Cuba, and Hispaniola, which are islands. We can tell that the Santa Maria did not reach North America because it landed on some islands not a continents. Now that we are discussing the ships I want to tell you interesting information.”Little is known about either ship (Lee,1).” The article is referring to the Nina and Pinta. This leads me to believe that these ships did not discover North America because we would have some evidence that they touched our continent. It also arouses the question, if we don't know a lot about the ships do we really know a lot about Columbus? Now I would like to take a look at some of the maps of his voyages. On Britannica Kids it shows the map of all of his voyages. It also shows Columbus not touching North America at all. When comparing the Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta’s routes in the intro of “The story of