Christopher Columbus

He believed the shortest route was across the Atlantic. Columbus believed the issue was not the shape of the earth, but its size. He thought it to be only about 3,000 miles. The Portuguese, however, were convinced that the world was much larger, and that the African route was still the shortest route causing them to reject Columbus’ request. Two years later while he was in Spain, he won the support of Queen Isabella. With the increased political…

Americans, and after them were the European settlers and explorers. When the white settlers came, they were friendly with the Native Americans and vice versa. At least, it looked like that on the surface; secretly, the Europeans, including Christopher Columbus wanted to enslave the Native Americans. Native Americans were tortured and killed, treaties were violated, and fights and raids broke out. Was exploration of the Americas worth the casualties and deaths on both sides? What was the impact…

This paper examines Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Dutch explorers and how and why the different groups acted the way they did in the areas they were exploring. Though all parties were European, each have different cultures and backgrounds. This directly affects their interactions in foreign countries. The Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Dutch were all unique in their oversea doings, each group acting and reacting in different ways for different reasons than their neighboring explorers.…

Ponce De Leon’s early life consisted of him sailing with Pizarro and Columbus when he was on his first journey with Pizarro he was one of his men and the one that kidnapped and killed the Incan Emperor Atahualpa. When he sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage he encountered natives again and brutally murdered them,pillaged,and took all of the tribe’s resources for the glory of Spain and for Christopher Columbus. Once Juan Ponce De Leon set sail with about 200 men(Including his…

Spanish did not value the Native Americans like the French and English. The Native Americans would eventually be valuable allies, and not only be imposed on and forced to live a certain way. Being the first to set sail, the Spanish were led by Christopher Columbus. The goal of the Spanish was to not only conquer the…

Americans and Europeans was actually an accident. The Spanish dispatched Christopher Columbus in hopes to find a faster trade route to Asia. Only one fourth of the way there Columbus landed in the Bahamas where he was met by the Arawak Indians as they swam out to the Spanish ships to meet him. The Native people gained the title Indians because Columbus believed they had landed in India hence the name Indians. The objective for Columbus then shifted away from finding a path to Asia. instead by…

the Spanish and the English, had different reasons for coming to this continent, and each dealt with Native Americans in their own way. Christopher Columbus came to the New World in hopes of learning, “the proper method of converting them to our holy faith,” along with searching…

to Asia. He thought he could sail west to get to Asia. His voyages led lasting contact between Europe and the Americas. Christopher Columbus also started the Columbian exchange, also known as the grand exchange. This was the…

was discovered by Christopher Columbus in December 5th, 1492. It is an island in the Caribbean which shares border with Haiti. In October of 1500, Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo arrested Christopher Columbus and sent him in restraints to Spain. Columbus, during his third break to the new world, busy in a dispute with the representative of Santo Domingo, Hispaniola Columbus was later free and pardoned by the Queen of Spain, Queen Isabella. In the year 1502, Christopher returned to the…

Salvador. He continued to sail on until he reached Cuba and then later to Haiti. Christopher Columbus loaded up products such as coconuts, tobacco, sweet corn, potatoes, and he also bought back some Indians. When he returned to Spain, they knew nothing about those items that he had brought the Europeans. There was a lot of disagreement with Portugal and Spain because they believed that one of the islands that Columbus found was already claimed by Portugal. The territory disagreement between…