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third, fourteen ninety-two Columbus left port from Spain, heading to find the eastern pathway to Asia. Columbus being the world’s best sea navigator at the time believed that if he took the North West trade winds he would land in the West Indies (Historic World Leaders). As taking these trade winds Columbus and his crew got caught up in sea weed and the wind blew them in a different direction overnight. On October tenth, fourteen Ninety-two Columbus’s crew had begun to give up on any…

Planetary Perspectives (Pg. 1) The section points out that although the Earth has been a part of the universe for billions of years, the New World was only discovered 500 years ago. That is virtually nothing compared to the Earth. The American Republic has only been here for 239 years out of 4.6 billion. Key Terms American Republic - the United States Indirect Discoverers of The New World (Pg. 2) Although the Scandinavians landed in North America, it wasn 't until the Europeans landed there…

Americans are people who are the descendants of pre-Columbian people that lived in North and South America. The name Indian came from Christopher Columbus because he thought he had gotten to the East Indies so he called the people Indians and it eventually caught on with people outside of the Indies. The Native American culture was very interesting because they thought that each person would be assigned an a spiritual animal and that when the person died it’s soul would be in the animal’s body.…

What happens when Cultures Collide? By: Joseph Hutchinson In the late 1400s the age of exploration and colonization started. The leader of exploration to the new world was Portugal. Following Portugal were: France, England, and Spain. The explorers went for three reasons God, gold, and glory. God was to spread Christianity, gold was to get raw materials for their mother country, and glory was to get more land and that means having more control. Then they went off exploring. The Spanish first…

Sutpen’s attitude and values, which influence his lifestyle, have drastically changed due to the huge impact that events in his past have had on his upbringing. These events helped him to become who he aspired to be but they also played a huge role in his downfall. In order to exemplify how Sutpen’s past actions affect his attitude and values, Faulkner uses multiple points of view, visual imagery, and indirect characterization. 1807 in a small town in West Virginia, a child who was a virgin too…

America had a huge effect on trade. Antoniio Vasquez de Espinoza, a Spanish priest, wrote the “Description of the West Indies” where he discusses the university in Peru. The document states “The university and Royal schools are so distinguished that they need envy no other in the world... The Professors are in major part…

Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in an area of Africa which is now Nigeria.At the age of eleven he was captured and brought into slavery. He was forced like many other African Americans during the 17th and 18th century. By reading about his biography in the textbook I learned how the Slave Trade affected the lives of many Africans who were enslaved like Equiano. I believe that without the Atlantic Slave Trade the United States would not be the great country it is today because the U.S. needed…

Dark Romanticism presents not only the good in life, but also the evil that is within. The dark romantic genre puts these views in the literary world, further spreading this mindset through the readers. Authors who influenced this genre tremendously in the 1800’s include Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of The Baskervilles), and especially Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Annabel Lee). The stories these authors created…

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 CE in Genoa, Italy where he was an explorer and navigator. Columbus had been traveling west to find trade routes in the Indies. The purpose of Christopher's travels were that, the Muslims had the only trade route headed west and he had been determined to cut the Muslims out of the his was for possible trades. However, during this time Columbus had begun embracing the ideas of Ptolemy’s and the estimates he had drawn up for the size of the world. In source 4…

exploration of a majority of North Atlantic exploration is thanked to Henry Hudson, who tried to find a northern passage. Europeans did not know of ice in the north, as the Arctic was unexplored. Geographers thus believed that you could travel to the Indies by any northern path. Henry was born in England approximately in 1565. Most of his life prior to 1607 is unknown, however, it is believed that he learned seafaring first hand from sailors or fishermen. Evidence indicates that he probably…