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Christopher Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European ...
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1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and the New World, among others, because of the number of significant events that took place.
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The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans.
The year 1492 has always been a significant year in his understanding of world history, forever associated with Columbus’s discovery of a sea route to America, which united civilisations by transforming the Atlantic from an insuperable barrier into a highway of trade and ideas.
1492 ( MCDXCII ) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1492nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 492nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1490s decade.
Jan 1, 1992 · By Debra Viadero — January 01, 1992 9 min read. Every year, Michael Connolly begins teaching his high school students about Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas by asking them what they...
1492: Conquest of Paradise: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean. Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
