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  1. 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 A monumental work recording unpublished details of the great navigator's voyages of exploration and discovery, in the form of critical communications and official documents...

  2. Columbus 'Discovering America' 1492 (circa 1600) History Illustration. Exploration. pic: circa 1592. This illustration is of Christopher Columbus, (1451-1506) born in Italy, but who sailed from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean to find the Caribbean islands and the coast of South America 1492-1504, and wa.

    • 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.
  3. turning point in both European and American history, and have always inspired literature (variously polemical, popular, and perceptive), music, drama, and painting. In i892, with the pioneering westward movement in. America and European colonialism at their respective heights, Columbus. was hailed as a hero.

  4. Aug 3, 2011 · Aug. 3, 1492: Columbus Sets Out to Discover ... a Trade Route. 1492: Christopher Columbus, sailing for the Spanish crown, weighs anchor for the New World. From his flagship Santa Maria,...

  5. When your parents were in school, Modern World History and U.S. History usually began in 1492, with the Italian Cristoforo Colon’s “discovery” of America. Even today, typical histories of America tend to consider the moment of Columbus’ landing on October 12, 1492, to be a significant turning point.

  6. Every American school child knows the story of Christopher Columbus. In 1492, he set out from Spain across the Atlantic in search of a sea route to India and China. Instead, he found a new world.