Christopher Columbus Failures

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Since the beginning of the 1500’s new concepts and new societies have emerged across the Earth. All of these new empires and nations appear to have been sparked with the founding of the “New World” by Christopher Columbus. Although many nations inherited many good things through trade and cultural interconnections, many contained corrupted experiences from these new connections, but in result, all the occurrences made the world interconnected between nations.
Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 to find a quicker, more efficient trade route with China; however, he miscalculated and ended up in the landed in the Bahamas. Although this would turn out to be an astounding discovery, it was mainly viewed as a failure during the time. With this …show more content…

Alfonso D’ Albuquerque – who was leader of Portuguese forces – sent off sixty war boats in attempt to intercept ships that had explored into the port of Hormuz. The biggest battle during the time, much like today, was the battle to stay militarily advanced. Forces back then were not highly skilled in the art of war, so various problems occurred during the battle for the port of Hormuz. During the battle, a heavy smoke had lifted and caused confusion for both forces in the battle. When the smoke lifted, however, Alfonso would become aware that his crew had won the battle. In this battle, as the smoke was bad for the forces, it ended up being helpful to Alfonso because of his …show more content…

However, as years passed, trade changed from the importance of exchanging items. One trading era, known as the Atlantic slave trade era, occurred in a triangular shape among East and West Africa, North America, the Caribbean islands as well as some of Europe. The triangular trade would begin with the shipment of slaves from Africa to areas of the Caribbean and along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of North America. Once this trade was completed, sugar would be shipped to areas in Europe. Lastly, manufactured goods would be shipped to the final destination in the triangular trade in Africa. The trading of slaves would bring many countries closer in relationship; on the other hand, slave trade would create tension within nations causing civil wars and revolutions. Many tried for years to deplete the slave trade. Even the slaves, although without much success would try to end slavery with slave rebellions. One of the most successful slave rebellions was led by Toussaint Louvature in the Saint-Domingue. The successfulness of the revolt would bring the renaming of the land to Haiti (Sources from the Past 533, 566). Along with slave rebellions, the American and French revolutions would play a part in the depletion of the slave trade. These events show the effectiveness of the connections between nations and that when an idea begins to fade in one

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