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Nov 9, 2009 · The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but...
Oct 9, 2017 · As a young man, Columbus established himself as a sailor in the Mediterranean. In 1476 he was sent on a commercial voyage headed for England that was attacked by marauders off the coast of...
Oct 23, 2020 · According to the classic social studies lesson, Columbus accidentally "discovered" what was to become the United States of America while leading a Spanish expedition that consisted of three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Jun 13, 2012 · On October 10, after thirty-four days at sea, they began to grumble that the voyage was taking too long. Some even threatened to put Columbus in irons, turn the ship round and sail back to Spain. It was a dangerous moment, but Columbus managed to calm the crews down, promising them that land would be sighted soon.
- First Americans: 16,000-35,000 years ago. Almost all Native American tribes – Sioux, Comanche, Iroquois, Cherokee, Aztec, Maya, Quechua, Yanomani, and dozens of others – speak similar languages.
- Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC. Another group, the Na-Dene, crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska around 5,000 years ago, although other studies suggest they settled the Americas as long as 10,000 years ago.
- Eskimo-Aleut: 2,000-2,500 BC. The Inuit descend from an earlier migration: that of speakers of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
- Inuit: AD 900. Just before the Vikings, the Inuit people travelled from Siberia to Alaska in skin boats. Hunting whales and seals, living in sod huts and igloos, they were well adapted to the cold Arctic Ocean, and skirted its shores all the way to Greenland.
Columbus headed off disaster by promising his crew that if land was not sighted in two days, they would return home. The next day land was discovered. A New World is Revealed. Columbus's journal of his first voyage to America has been lost.
May 16, 2024 · Did Christopher Columbus discover America? Some people say Columbus discovered America or the "New World," but Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America centuries earlier, and Native American tribes had lived in the Americas for centuries before either Columbus or the Vikings arrived.
