What is important about the year 1492?

Answer 1

1492 is important in American history because that is the year that Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas and discovered them. there is a well known saying:

in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue

Answer 2

That was the year Christopher Columbus found the New World. There had be traffic between the Old World (Europe & Asia) and the New World (North & South America) for centuries. Probably because so much knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages academics of the time believed the world was flat and there was nothing but water between the world they knew and the edge of the world.

Columbus believed the world was round and that he could reach what we know as Asia by sailing West. He believed that going West would be much shorter than going all the way around Africa. Consequently, when he reached the Caribbean he thought he had reached Asia. Boy was he wrong! He didn't realize at first that he had re-discovered a continent(s) that had been forgotten for centuries.

Answer 3

1. The Spanish established an exchange between Europe and the Americas.

Answer 4

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