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Columbus’s original destination was for Asia (Indies), but this quest was far too long for his crew to handle. He had an idea that would change his course to arrive in faster timing: Why not sail west across the Atlantic instead of around the massive African continent? He took four separate trips but never actually stepped foot in North America. The Americas he discovered was South America. This of course opened up a new route for future voyages.
My idea is what if he never accidentally found the Americas. During one of his four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from spain, the wind blew his sails to the correct route to the Indies. Columbus, the explorer he was, drew a map of this route in his journal to remember which direction it took to go to Asia. Doing this he never got off course anywhere in the area of the Americas. In doing this it caused a delay of the European colonization of North America.
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Some consequences of his explorations were severe.
Europeans extracted resources from Native areas, even when the surplus was low. Land was taken, certain animal population nearly became extinct due to hunting nearly all of them. Columbus also unloaded horses, cows, pigs, wheat, barley, sugar cane. These animals took over local environments and horse population quickly exploded up. No natural predators were there to keep the population so some animals, like horses, grew like wildfire. Even though he brought non native species to America it’s consequence wasn’t as severe as other things he did. If he were to never come to America we not have these animals or they wouldn’t be introduced in till someone else's next
exploration. History shows he just didn’t bring a ship, Santa Maria, to America. He also brought diseases such as swine and bird flu. With his arrival in America the diseases brought killed of as much as 90% of the native population. If he never came then these diseases would have never been brought meaning that the Native population wouldn’t have such a rapid drop. This possibly could be one of the consequences of him never stumbling across America. Native population may be higher than the European population today. Other than “discovering” America, he also sent slaves all around the Earth. He traded slaves for goods such as gold, pearls, silver, and precious stones. Columbus sent 500 slaves to Queen Isabella but she believe they can not be enslaved and returned his “gift.” If his trading system never occured then there would be a delay in slavery in North America. Everything from Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves to the Black Movement lead by Martin Luther King Jr. could’ve changed everything. Imagine slaves never being set free because slavery happened later than Lincoln's presidency or someone else leading the Black Movement in the 50’s and 60’s. It could be possible the movement was never successful due to the non existent of King's leadership. Segregation may still be in the present today. Without his accidental discovery, everything would have changed. It could be a collateral damage in the future. Like the American Revolution could have taken place somewhere else, making our present day non existent. Or if Reagan was never president causing the Berlin Wall to still be up. The tech revolution could have occured somewhere else and looking at today, it would affect everyone. Monuments such as Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty will certainly never exist if the American Revolution hadn’t occured.
He left from Spain with six ships, three to deliver supplies to the colonies in the New World, and three for the exploration to find a more direct route to Asia, which Columbus believed he would find. He sailed to the Canary islands, then west across the Atlantic. On this voyage, Columbus got stuck in the “horse latitudes”, areas where the wind is especially calm. During this time, the crews ran low on water. They reached land on the 31th of July, in present day Trinidad. The quantity of fresh water entering the ocean had Columbus conclude he was on a continent. He concluded that the “Garden of Eden” was on this new continent. In the next months, Columbus continued to explore the surrounding areas, looking for gold and the Garden of Eden. Columbus sailed to one of his previous settlements to find citizens there rebelling against the tyrannic rule he had established there. The exact date of his return to Europe was unknown, however in 1500, the Spanish crown stripped him of his Governor
Christopher Columbus does not deserve to be honored as a hero with his own holiday. Close to 500 years, people have praised Christopher Columbus and also celebrated him as though he was the one who truly founded America. Teachers teach students that he was a great man, also how he found treasures and land known as America. Students are also taught about the names of his three ships he used on his first voyage. However, they did not teach us the truth about Christopher Columbus, and his so called “discovery”.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus unintentionally discovered America, when he landed in the Caribbean Islands, while looking for a direct sea route to Asia. Despite the fact that Columbus believed he had found a direct sea route to India, he has been called the discoverer of America and hailed as a hero. More recently, however, he has been called a villain, with accusations saying that not only did he not discover America, but also that he was the cause of slavery and oppression in the Americas. These allegations are absurd and lack logical evidence.
Columbus does not deserve to be praised for the discovery of America. In short, if he didn't do it, someone else would have within 10 years. He was not the only one who believed that the earth was round, and the ideas of similar voyages had been previously proposed.
Ever since Christopher Columbus voyages in the 1400’s there has been many different opinions wheatear he is a hero or a villain. In my opinion Christopher Columbus should not be considered a hero. A hero is somebody who performs good deeds for the sake of others, and not for their own benefit, whereas Christopher Columbus just wanted to find gold and riches for himself and Spain. I believe he is a villain for a few reasons Firstly; he took full advantage of the Arawak community, Secondly, he treated the Arawak’s terribly using them as slaves and Lastly,
For more than five centuries Americans have lifted Christopher Columbus to heights of greatness and god-like. We celebrate his life as though he was a man that had done us a great favor. In resent years Christopher Columbus has come under scrutiny, his life and works being questioned more than celebrated. There have be many great men and women that contributed to the building of our great nation but they do not receive anywhere as much recognition as Columbus. When a person begins to study the actual accounts of the "finding of the New World" they begin to wonder if Columbus should adored or hated for his actions. As a child I was taught that Columbus was a great man that had accomplished great things for the sake of humanity, but in reality his agenda was not to better humanity but to better himself. He found the Americas by mere chance and he did not even know of what he found. We give him credit for "finding" the Americas but history tells of the people, that he called Indians, already inhabiting the foreign land. So you decide whether or not Christopher Columbus should be revered a hero.
“As European adventurers traversed the world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries they initiated the “Columbian Exchange” of plants, animals, and diseases.”(P. 26). The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases and more modernized technology, beginning after Columbus landing in the Americas in 1492. It lasted through the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, sheep and pigs were introduced to the Americas. The Americas introduced to Europe many new crops such as potatoes, beans, squash, and maize. In time Native people learned to raise European livestock and European and Africans planted American crops. This was the positive effect of the encounter and it was largely responsible for the doubling of the world’s population in the next three hundred years. There were also many negative effects to the “Columbian Exchange” A major consequence was the spread of disease in the New World. Diseases carried by Europeans and Africans devastated the population of the Americas. As Europeans traveled through the Americas epidemics came with them. Typhus, diphtheria, malaria, influenza, cholera, and smallpox killed many of the native people. One example was
Christopher Columbus was a famous navigator and explorer who was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Columbus wanted to claim land for Spain so he could be rich and spread religion. He originally set out to find the East Indies for many reasons. One was that he hoped to establish trade routes and colonies in order to gain wealth. Another was that there were now bigger guns that could be strapped on ships so he felt that his voyage had more of a chance of being successful. The main reasons for his exploration was that he wanted to find a western route to Asia to find the riches that Marco Polo talked about in his book. So basically he was not courageous, he was just greedy. He intended on arriving in Japan on his first voyage, but instead, he arrived at the Bahamas archipelago. He ended up making numerous voyages and claiming the lands he visited for the Spanish Empire. Columbus continued voyages creating the first lasting European conta...
My personal opinion? Villain. Christopher Columbus was a nasty man who was motivated by greed. “The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the Gold” (Zinn 4)? He logged in his journal his first encounter with the Arawak people, stating “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might give me information of whatever there is in these parts” (Zinn 4). Their crime? “They wore tiny gold ornaments in their ears” (Zinn 5). Columbus would stop at nothing to gain what he most desired. Horrible as he was, he ultimately paved the way for America as we know it. All things happen for a reason, right?
...us brought America to the attention of the civilized world, to the growing, scientific civilizations of Western Europe. The result, ultimately, was the United States of America. It was Columbus’ discovery for Western Europe that led to the arrival of ideas and people on which this nation was founded on. The voyages of Christopher Columbus contain one of the great adventure stories of all time. His first journey across thousands of miles of unknown ocean, in the middle of the rebellious grievances and tensions of his crew, was not only one of the most significant achievements of recorded human history, but was also a demonstration of Columbus's dominance as mariner and navigator. For a while he had faults and defects, which brought turmoil to his personal life, but there was no flaw, no dark side to the most significant of all his qualities, of course his seamanship.
Christopher Columbus is well remembered today. The discoveries Columbus made are well appreciated and even though, Columbus is credited with discovering the New World, Columbus really didn’t accomplish any of his goals because he didn’t find any riches for Spain and he didn’t discover the New world nor was he the first to visit. However, he gave the people the opportunity of exploration on the American continent and just like everyone else Columbus had his ups and downs during his four voyages. During his last two years of life after his last voyage, Columbus recovered some of his riches and tried to recover his titles, but didn’t have any luck. Then in 1506, Columbus returned to Spain with nothing but sickness and died on May 20, 1506 due to illness. Christopher Columbus died believing he had discovered a shorter route to
Christopher Columbus was one of the most legendary sailors and explorers of all time. Christopher Columbus , an italian explorer, was born in the year of 1451 in the Republic of Genoa. Christopher Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail the ocean in 1465. He became a sailor in 1476 and started to travel many places before going on his largest voyage in 1480. In 1492, Christopher Columbus exploration to the New World linked Europe and the Americas. His discoveries enlightened the globe and started a new age of exploration. His standards and morals changed the history of the whole globe. He was known for traveling for all types of reasons for many foreign monarchs. But why would a monarch from one country be interested in employing an explorer from a foreign country to complete such an important task?
On October 14, 1492, Christopher Columbus founded the New World, sparking one of the biggest domino effects in history, and changing the world forever. Columbus 's expedition led to the discovery of the vast natural resources of America, such as precious metals, vast expansive woods, and nutrient rich soil perfect for growing crops and raising livestock. Whenever there are large quantities of resources found, it is not long before colonization follows. This spawned a period of competition for territory, resources, and colonization in the Americas. Columbus was not the first person to discover the Americas. Chinese merchants and Vikings had already been to the Americas, as well as the indigenous people who lived there. He was the first person
The most posing problems with the set routes to Asia, which went around the Cape of Good Hope and along the coast of Africa, were that it was very dangerous due to enemy colonies along the route and was also very long. These problems made some people, including Christopher Columbus, decide to turn to the west to find safer and faster routes to the riches of Asia. What they found was the Americas. Believing that he would reach Asia, Columbus accidentally found a new continent, full of new riches and unclaimed lands. All of this occurred near the end of the Renaissance, beginning with the founding of America in 1492, near the end of the 15th century.
Despite popular belief, when Columbus set sail, the Earth was already proven round. His goal was not to prove that the Earth was round. Most countries wouldn't even fund this voyage, either. England, France, and Portugal all refused to give him funding. Most people believe that he sailed over in the Pinta, Nina and the Santa Maria. This is wrong. The Nina was actually named the Santa Clara. The name of the Pinta is currently unknown, but it is Spanish for “prostitute.” The Santa Maria got destroyed on the coral reefs around Hispaniola and the crew was never seen again. He also made four journeys not just one. Unknown to most is that Columbus was a tyrannical maniac. He forced the natives to pay him in gold for being there. If the natives didn't give him enough gold, he cut off their hands. He was buried in Spain, after death, but later was moved to Hispaniola. After the death of Columbus, his heirs fought with the crown until 1790 over not getting enough money for Columbus’ work. This all proves that present Americans altered the facts to make it seem that Columbus was a hero, not a