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They first sponsored his voyage because they believed it would lead to China and the wealth that would come with it. Then they sponsored his subsequent voyages to gain wealth from the Americas!
Christopher Columbus was the first European to come to the Caribbean on his four voyages
Christopher Columbus came to the Caribbean because he was looking for India and encountered the unknown Americas instead.
Christopher Columbus came to the Caribbean because he was looking for India and encountered the unknown Americas instead.
Columbus tried to convey the Americas as an exotic, interesting place. He wanted to report back favorably to the Spanish who funded his journey, and entice the Spanish to come to America and colonize or explore.
He didn't discover America. Leif Erikson, a viking, discovered America. He said there 500 years before columbus.
Columbus was looking for a route across the Atlantic Ocean to India and reached the Caribbean instead. His discovery was a mistake, and although Vikings had come to North America from Europe several hundred years earlier, Columbus is still credited by some with having discovered America.
Since 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered some islands in the Caribbean. and started the process of European colonization of the Americas.
The first people to come to the Americas in the late 1400s were the Spaniards led by Christopher Columbus.
Since 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered some islands in the Caribbean. and started the process of European colonization of the Americas.
Yes, Christopher Columbus was a Tudor pirate...
Yes, Spanish explorers explored and settled in the Americas before the Pilgrims arrived in what is now known as the United States. The Spanish expeditions in the Americas began with Christopher Columbus in 1492, while the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.