Christopher Columbus

The first one off the boat

Queen Isabella of Spain helped finance Columbus' voyages.

Christopher Columbus's route to Asia was different because he tried to reach Asia by sailing west from Spain instead of going east so he landed in North America.Europeans had not known the Americans existed.They soon competed for North American lands.

In 1497, Italian-born John Cabot sailed from England to North America, looking for a northern route to Asia. Accounts vary on where he landed; most likely it was the coast of Newfoundland, Labrador or Cape Breton.

Columbus NEVER landed in North America. He didn't know it existed. He landed in the Bahamas. In the late 1700's the Italian American's began the story that Columbus landed in America so they could get a special day and parade like the Irish American's for St. Patrick's day. Columbus was not Italian, but Spanish. This is how history is changed.

Christopher Columbus first came across native Americans in 1492. He documented the encounter in his journal.

Columbus promised a substantial amount of exotic spices, and other goods in exchange for support in his voyage.

He believed the world was round and yes, the world is round.

He didn't sail around the world, he sailed to America (but thought it was asia)

Susanna Fonanarossa was the mother of Cristoforo Colombo, commonly believed to be Christopher Columbus.

he made money by selling goods such as spices.

to state a definite question or problem.Purpose gives direct, narrows scope, and provides a specific intent.

Christopher Columbus was a genoese navigator, who was involved with the idea of sailing westward to find India. His calculations was based on the best maps available, those of Toscanelli.

Columbus did not set out to discover a New World. He set out with a desire to expand the knowledge of the known sea and sea trade routes, to discover the riches of the Indies, to reap commercial success for Spain, and to increase his own wealth and the future prosperity of his family. While never knowing exactly what he had discovered, his voyage made other explorers willing to embark on voyages that would come to make up the Era of Discovery. He was the first and his voyages encouraged others. As a result of Columbus's voyages to the New World, a biological pipeline between America and Europe opened up that had been apart since before humans appeared on earth. The lands had drifted apart that had once been connected. Some species of plants and animals flourished in both areas, and some did not. There were many new animals and plants in the Americas that Europeans had never seen. And, Europeans brought plants and animals to the New World that America had never seen. This "Colombian Exchange," while bringing viruses and other biological germs to both areas of the world which neither side had experienced before, was also a cultural exchange. New agricultural developments were traded, economic activity and opportunities opened up between the New and Old Worlds, and new ideas were exchanged.

The flags that Columbus flew on the Santa Maria were the Spanish flag and the flag of the King and Queen of Spain Ferdinand and Isabella as described in his log book dated October 12th 1492. The king and queen's flag had a green "F" to the left of a green cross in the middle and a green "Y" to the right. A gold crown was above each of the letters "F" and "Y." "Ferdinand" and "Ysabel." This flag was an "ensign" flag which meant that it would have been flown on the stern (read deck) of the ships.

The Spanish flag was from the "Kingdom of Castile and Leon" showed two yellow/gold castles on a red background (upper left and lower right) and two red lions on a white background (upper right and lower left).

Gravity by Newton and space/time by Einstein. Newton's clock on earth has the same force as Einstein's clock, but when Einstein's clock moves to the top of Everest mountain, it will have less force.

By Amin Elsersawi

Both Newton and Einstein admitted that there is gravity. The gravity of Newton was on Earth, and the gravity of Einstein was the cosmological constant. Einstein made a big mistake when he added the cosmological constant to compensate for his thought that the universe was static (stand still). The cosmological constant was an anti-gravity 'vacuum' force that kept gravity from pulling the universe in on itself. In conclusion, Newton was right, and Einstein was wrong in distinguishing the gravity.

The 3 ships Christopher Columbus used were the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

The Santa Maria was the ship he was on the most, but that was only because one of the others got sunk or something

The Godspeed,the Discovery,and the Susan Constant.

cause he wanted to make a dffrence and discovr new things

Europe would still have to trade with and through the Middle East. The governments ruling the Middle East, especially the Ottoman Turks, would be far wealthier than they ended up being after Europe turned to the West. After the capture of Constantinople in 1456, the Turks would have probably been able to capture Vienna within a few hundred years. Whole swaths of Europe, not just the Balkans might be speaking Turkish today. The Middle East would not have turned into the international backwater that it is today. Correspondingly, many European states would be far less powerful than they became after the Atlantic Ocean became more important than the Mediterranean Sea. Without tobacco or sugar,(two New World products for which Europe developed an addiction) for example, England would have never amassed a trade surplus. Without the trade surplus a far less wealthy England would have never built an empire where "the sun never sets". Spain might still have been able to consolidate its Christian kingdoms against the Muslim rulers, but it would never be building an Armada to invade England, a few hundred years later, because it wouldn't have the gold and silver from the Incas and the Aztecs as a source of funding. Germany as we know it might not exist, except as provinces of the Ottoman or Russian empire.

Does the sayiing; "Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in 1492" ring any bells with you?

Columbus was an explorer and a sailor. He discovered the New World (later Americas) and was patronised by the Spanish. He was not an aristocrat. Henry the Navigator never took a voyage himself. He was a Portuguese prince who patronised seamen to find a new route to the Indies. He established the first school of navigation and the first observatory in Portugal.

Because they were scared