The Contributions Of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus is famously known as an Italian explorer and navigator who discovered the Americas( now known as the Bahamas) in 1492. Born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, later known as Italy, Christopher grew up as a seaman and first set sail on the sea when he was just a teenager. His first job was as an map/chart maker, in which he excelled at, though Columbus was mainly interested in being a seagoing entrepreneur . Columbus’s main mission for sailing across the world was to find a route to richer land in Asia and bring riches back to Spain. Though Christopher Columbus’s expedition to finder richer land was treacherous, he managed to overcome the harsh conditions and colonize the Bahamas and display to the Spaniards his great achievements,

In particular, the Portuguese were the first to discover wealth and lands in other areas. Though, other European nations such as Spain greatly yearned to find limitless riches in other lands like the Portuguese. Spain sparked its first voyage with Columbus through the factors of fearing Portugal because of their advancement in discovering new spices, riches, and lands, a lust for gold to supply the abundant need for spices and herbs for cooking, and a yearning for adventure. Christopher Columbus happened to be in Spain at the siege of Granada and was called upon the Spanish court, thus giving his chance to request funding for his voyages to Asia. While Columbus was in front of the Spanish court, he proposed to them an agreement of finding gold and riches in Asia to put them ahead of their rival, Portugal. Despite the great amount of Spanish explorers who wanted to embark on the voyage to riches in Asia, the Catholic monarchs and the Spanish court then came to a consensus that having Christopher Columbus sail the voyage would benefit them greatly. Therefore, if Columbus brought back gold and spices as he promised to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, then he would receive 10 percent of the profit and govern the new lands that he discovers. Shortly after Columbus was funded for the voyage towards Asia, Columbus

Though the Indians on the island were agriculture based, they displayed eminent signs of gold jewelry on their body, drawing a conclusion to Columbus that he has found the source of gold. Because of such discovery, Christopher Columbus took many Native Indians captive and forced them to find the other sources of gold and riches around the Americas. Columbus sailed from Cuba to Hispaniola, in which there he found tiny bits of gold in the river and the Native Indians’ chief showed Columbus a gold embellished mask, strucking in Columbus’ mind a vast field of gold somewhere to be found. Columbus soon then sailed back to Spain, presenting to the Spanish court the abundant amount of prisoners and exaggerating the foundings of gold and spices in the Americas, even stating to the court that he reached Asia and found the gold off an island of China, which in fact it was Cuba and the so called island was