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Christoph Kolumbus 1446-1506. Exploration. A model of the "Nina" one of the three ships (with the "Pinta" and "Santa Maria") that Christopher Columbus used to sail to the new world in 1492.
Christopher Columbus. Discovers America, 1492. Printer Friendly Version >>>. C olumbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited.
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- 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.
European discovery and colonization of the Americas. Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus [a] led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World.
The New World. Sea Ship Santa María of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus. The Landing Of Columbus. Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer, discovering America, 12 May 1492 (1590).
May 13, 2014 · Science May 13, 2014 12:32 PM EDT. A leading underwater archaeologist says he has identified the shipwrecked remains of Christopher Columbus’ flagship off the northern coast of Haiti.
A monumental collection. A monumental work recording unpublished details of the great navigator's voyages of exploration and discovery, in the form of critical communications and official documents...
