Christopher Columbus

When Columbus arrived in 1492 he soon noticed the wealth that the native american possesed. After he had been given a small gold tiara from the natives he saw this as a sign of surrender. He went back to europe and one year later came to america again with 14 ships, with the bible in one hand and the sword in the other. He seeked gold and glory but he went in the name of god ( only his opinion).

Christopher Columbus was cerainly not inspired to be an explorer by his father but in 1476 he sailed on his first expedition so that might have inspired him to become a real explorer.

Christopher Columbus's occupation before he went on his first voyage was as a business agent for two important families in Genoa.

He thought the distance to Asia was closer than it really was and he thought he was near the continent of Asia

it was good at first then sold them to England as slaves

they believe he came from heaven.

His voyage required four months, but one month of that was spent in the Canary Island.

She had five kids in 1479. They had four girls and a boy. Her daughters name's were Juana, Catherine, and Margaret. Catherine was Henry the Eighths first wife. but there was another one

Hundreds of years ago peoplebelieved that the Earth was completely flat and if you sailed to far then you would fall of the edge, a little like disc-world in the Terry Pratchett books. But with danger comes bravery, and soon enough brave explorers travelled the world in search of the edge and realised it was in a sphere shape. Until recently when we went into space we had no idea exactly what our Earth looked like.

Spain financed Columbus' journey to find a water route to India. Columbus was convinced he found India when landing in the Carribean but really he had found the Americas'

On the morning of Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stepped ashore on an island, called the new world. He was seeking a western sea route from Europe to Asia.

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No. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Santa Maria, one of his three borrowed shipsin 1492. He was looking for a water route to Asia. The Pilgrims came in 1620 from an English village to establish a colony . Many pilgrims came not to find new land, like Columbus, but to have religious or regular freedom from their homeland.

The goal for the first voyage of Christopher Columbus was to reach the West Indies.

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First, he never got to North America so never met an “American Indian “ and the natives he did meet he was rude, and considered them less than himself. On his first voyage when one man brought him a gold nugget he cut his hand off because it wasn’t a lot of gold. On his second voyage he enslaved 1200 people and sent 500 to Spain as slaves. He didn’t cooperate and he considered himself a superior person compared to the natives he met.

He was arrogant, conceited, superior and violent. He demanded submission, enslaved the native people he encountered in the Caribbean and killed those who would challenge him or his men. Most of the native peoples he encountered ended up dying of infectious diseases brought by these European people, as the natives had no immunity to them, whereas Columbus and his crew did have immunity (to the point that they would contract various Infectious Diseases but not necessarily die from them).

Columbus was looking for a water route to India when he found a small island called Hispaniola. He had sailed for 32 days and though he was in India. What he found was a few natives with very little gold. It was the gold he really wanted and he ordered the natives to bring it to him. When they didn't he cut off their hands. He didNOT DISCOVER AMERICA AND NEVER KNEW IT WAS THERE.

Columbus's main goals were twofold- Spanish expansionism and an increase in prestige for Spanish sea power.

His expedition was heavily subsidised by the Spanish monarchy and aristocracy, because it was very much in their own interests to do so. By the end of the 15th Century, few people any longer believed that the world was flat, and it was widely known that new lands of some kind lay far off on the Western side of the Atlantic Ocean. But not many people knew just HOW distant they were, nor how to succesfully navigate there. The Spanish Government knew that if Spain could establish a safe navigable passage to the Americas, and also establish the nature of the 'new' lands, this could potentially hugely increase Spain's influence. The natural resources found there, and lucrative trading agreements with the population, stood to enable the Spanish economy to become so powerful that it could make Spain the dominant financial power in Europe. Ultimately, there lay the possibility of mass Spanish colonialism leading to the 'new world' falling directly under Madrid's control.

There was also the question of a successful voyage being a huge propaganda coup for Spanish seafaring. In those days, England and Spain were the two main naval powers in Europe- but England under the Tudors had the edge. If a Spanish expeditionary team was able to pull off a major success, this would have a profound psychological effect upon England's opinion of what Spain was capable of.

One of Christopher Columbus's main problems he didn't understand the size of the world and went the wrong way. He went west to go east. He was also a very greedy, mean man. He cheated his own sailors out of the promised reward for spotting land. He stated he saw a light the night before and therefore he was the first to spot land and kept the reward. He cut off the hands of the natives he found because they didn't bring him enough gold. Finally, he did NOT discover America. He found Hispaniola and thought it was India until the day he died.

The farthest voyage to farthest west is obviously, 1 (1492) voyage. Thank you for questioning.

one time but he raised money and got some more

They were 75 feet long and had a crew of 2 dozen men .