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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.
Oct 19, 1986 · A five-year investigation by National Geographic magazine, also reported in its November issue, has concluded that the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria first anchored in the New World at Samana Cay in ...
Christopher Columbus. 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. His first stop was the Canary Islands where the lack of wind left his expedition ...
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- Legacy of Christopher Columbus
The debate about Columbus’s character and achievements began at least as early as the first rebellion of the Taino Indians and continued with Roldán, Bobadilla, and Ovando. It has been revived periodically (notably by Las Casas and Jean-Jacques Rousseau) ever since. The Columbus quincentenary of 1992 rekindled the intensity of this early questionin...
The debate about Columbus’s character and achievements began at least as early as the first rebellion of the Taino Indians and continued with Roldán, Bobadilla, and Ovando. It has been revived periodically (notably by Las Casas and Jean-Jacques Rousseau) ever since. The Columbus quincentenary of 1992 rekindled the intensity of this early questionin...
christopher columbus discovering america erecting the cross 1492 - christopher columbus discovers america stock illustrations Christopher Columbus discovering America erecting the cross 1492 History Illustration, Exploration, pic: circa 1592, This illustration is of Christopher Columbus, born in Italy, but who sailed from Spain across the...
The Voyages of Christopher Columbus. 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.
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In 1892, when the fourth centenary of the discovery of America was celebrated, a Columbus Commission was set up in Italy, promoted by the Ministry of Education. Frontespizio di Vita di Cristoforo Colombo del professore Angelo Sanguineti (1846) by Sanguineti, Angelo Centro Studi Americani
