In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on one of the most consequential expeditions in history. He and his crew spent more than a month at sea and eventually landed upon the New World. But the journey ...
As a reward, his Spanish benefactors, Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, said Columbus would be entitled to ten percent of all the ...
Five hundred years later, the legacy of Christopher Columbus remains unsettled.
NMAI copy 39088017837824 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. "Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape ...
Christopher Columbus changed the world, as few other men have ever changed it, bringing together the unknown and the known. Yet remarkably, the great explorer went to his grave ignorant of his great ...
"Slightly altered and corrected republication in one volume of nos. LXV and LXX of the second series of works published by The Hakluyt Society, London, in 1930 and 1933, respectively, under the title ...
When we think about the voyages of Christopher Columbus, we often think only about the effects they had on the New World. But, equally important was the transfer of goods from west to east. A ...
On the second Monday of October, we commemorate Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer, whose 15th-century maritime voyages from Spain to the Caribbean opened the seaway to greater discovery and ...
In celebration of Columbus Day, the pre-school students at Humpty Dumpty Kollege learned about the explorer’s voyage in 1492 and his three ships the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. The kindergarten class ...
The image and story of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century navigator who began European incursions into the Americas, have changed in the U.S. over the decades. Columbus was an obscure figure until ...
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