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2 days ago · Following the discovery in 1492 by Spaniards of the New World with Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' first voyage there and the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, expeditions led by conquistadors in the 16th century established trading routes linking Europe with all these areas.
The bronze statue of Columbus, his arm around an Indigenous American girl symbolizing America, arrived in Colón in 1870, as a gift from the Empress of France, Eugenia de Montijo. For lack of any better location, the statue ended up in a railroad yard.
4 days ago · In a letter written soon after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus explained how he dealt with the natives and revealed his and Spain’s religious motive for exploring what he conceived to be, in explicitly religious terms (see Christopher Columbus to Doña Juana de Torres, 1500) a New World.
4 days ago · They landed on the shores of North America, particularly areas now known as Canada, several centuries before Columbus made his voyage. Christopher Columbus – The Discovery Of America And What Happened After. Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas in 1492 is widely regarded as one of the most significant events in history.
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3 days ago · The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780300125825; 448pp.; Price: £26.00. At the start of this century, Britons were polled about which century was the worst century of the last millennium. They alighted on the 14th century as the century when the four horsemen ...
6 days ago · Discovery of North America. Shows routes of principle voyages to the New World between 985 and 1791. Three of these predate Colmbus. Click on map to go to source, then click again to enlarge so that labeling can be read clearly. Source: Source: National Atlas of the United States 1970. Available from Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection ...
1 day ago · The United States is a country in North America that is a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
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