Christopher Columbus

Columbus told the king and queen he would bring them back riches, and Spain at the time was competing with Portugal. In fact, Columbus also tried unsuccessfully to get support from Portugal, which was already finding sea routes to the East.

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That is true in some cases...He dosent go up to grass, collect it and say "What is this majestic type of object?!" so yeah .-.

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Columbus asked John II of Portugal to pay for an expedition across the Atlantic.

Two. one at birth, and the second just before her marriage

A development did not lead to Columbus' voyage to the Americas. What led Columbus to discover the Americas was this:

During this time period, the only known continents were Europe, Africa, and Asia, as they were all connected. There was immense trading between the continents, however, there were only two ways to get to Asia: through the Mediterranean or around Africa. The Italians controlled the Mediterranean trade route, so to get through them some heavy taxes had to be paid, if you were even let through at all. The trip around Africa was long and dangerous. So Christopher Columbus, an Italian, had an idea: sail across the Atlantic. He believed that Asia was right across the Atlantic from Europe. He went to Italy for the nation to fund his voyage but they called him crazy. This is because many people thought the Earth was flat and if you reached the end (which was believed to be the Atlantic), you'd fall off. He eventually offered his proposal to Spain, who accepted. So in name of Spain, Columbus and his men set sail across the Atlantic in hopes of finding a new trade route to the Indies. They imagined it to be a short sail so they didn't pack heavily. However, after a long time on sea, much longer than expected, land was spotted. They had believed to had landed in India, although, the people here spoke differently and looked a bit different. However, they referred to them as Indians, whom they thought they were. Columbus sailed many times back and forth between Europe and the so thought Indies. And it was not known until many years after his death that he had discovered a whole new land mass: the Americas. This was proven by Amerigo Vespucci, another Italian explorer, for whom the continents are named.

Spain had to go through the Mediterranean and then through the middle east and then through India to make it to china, so Spain wanted to find a new and easier way to trade with China. By traveling through such a large number of countries to the east the profits that the traders had decreased because they had to pay taxes to the separate countries which the traders passed through, and there were also bandits and raiders that would kill the traders and take their goods. Because of all this they encouraged Christopher Columbus to try and find a new way to the west...and then Columbus set sail on August 3rd with 3 ships ..... the Nina, the pinta, and the Santa Maria! Yeah! You got some info on Christopher Columbus!

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That answer up top I think is wrong.

The answer I think that is best to fit the question is

''He decided to sail west to reach the Indies. Because the cost of shipping by water was lower, Columbus and his backers would make more money when their cargo was sold''.

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Both answers are correct

Christopher Columbus did not invent the compass. The compass was invented in China for Feng Shui practitioners, to "align" the forces of the earth to help them maintain balance in their lives for later to become an important navigational tool.

in 1474 Columbus was a sailor on a ship attacked and destroyed by pirates he ended up floating to shore in Portugal? Fact or Fiction

Spain did not support him at first.

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my uncle mines and he goes every month to provide money for his family

European powers were interested in gaining colonies in Asia and Africa so that they could have areas on these continents that dealt in the slave trade. Many Asian immigrants were sent to San Francisco to help with the railroad while Africans were sent to the South to work on cotton plantations.

it depends which voyage you are talking about (he made 4). see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#In_popular_culture for more details!

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Queen Isabella of Spain.

Columbus only brought the necessities on his voyages. He brought along plenty of food like meat, fish and cheese, water, tools for navigation like maps, rulers and compasses, and items used for trade like jewelry and spices.

Columbus brought back Natives after his first voyage to show what he had found, there is no approximate number of how many people he killed, maybe not by himself... but because of him they died. I would say over 10 thousand, at least. Christopher Columbus was a terrible man. He only came to our country for gold, he killed so many native Americans who were innocent and he also brought many new diseases to the "new world".

Columbus received the Castilian equivalent of a knighthood, the honorific Don, as part of the contract, called the Capitulaciones de Santa Fe, that he signed with the Spanish Monarchs on 17 April 1492. That contract also gave him the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Viceroy, and Governor-General of any lands that he acquired for Spain.

he wanted to find asia but by going a different route. he wanted to sail west to get to asia. witch is kind of stupid(no offense) because asia is east of spain

· Foodstuffs

o Water provisions for an excessive amount of time

o Live ham and chickens

o Figs

o Dried fish

o Salt

o Rice

o Cheese

o Legumes (Peanuts, Chickpeas)

· Navigational Instruments

o Nautical almanacs

o Charts

o Compasses

o Magnets

o Hourglasses

o Rulers

· Trade Items

o Glass Beads

o Brass Rings

o Knitted caps

o Gold

o Silver

o Pearls

o Spices

State of New Granada

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the Americas and tons of new food and animals like turkeys corn and potatoes

1. Found new land for Europe

2. Killed many indians

Not only did Christopher Columbus open up the world intellectually, to see that reaching China by going West was possible and you would not fall off the planet, but also on an economic level,trade opened up a great deal, with new markets everywhere around the world there was a great deal of advancement in physics and math as new machinery was needed for quick efficient machines which produced quality items. Advantages to Europe:

New places to migrate meant that people could leave the overpopulated countries and ease the burden (e.g in France the Population had risen to 20 million before the revolution) on the country.

Europe now had a market to sell to ( that being the West Indies and Americas)

Long term:

Great suffering for many people ( the extinction of the indigenous people of the islands)

Possibly racial discrimination which occurs today( remember people love your brothers)

Emigration

for you people in apex,, the answer is----> other nations in Europe worked to profit from the New World as Spain did!

he would help his dad with the dads job as a weaver and his mother was also the daughter of a weaver