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4 days ago · Christopher Columbus discovered the New World for the Kingdom of Castile and Leon in 1492. Private adventurers thereafter entered into contracts with the Spanish Crown to conquer the newly discovered lands in return for tax revenues and the power to rule. [46]
5 days ago · Europeans dreamed of crossing the Isthmus of Panama from their first encounters, when Columbus and other explorers learned from Indigenous Americans about a vast open sea on the other side of the narrow strip of land. Columbus searched for a strait through which he could sail, while Balboa hiked across on foot and Magellan sailed through a ...
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5 days ago · The events of the last decade of the fifteenth century had changed the civilized world. On April 17, 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella had given their formal approval to Christopher Columbus for his voyage, putting at his disposal three tiny caravels—the largest of them little more than a hundred feet long.
5 days ago · The five great Italian navigators were: Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni and Sebastiano Caboto and Giovanni da Verazzano. Everyone had to look for jobs outside Italy, given that the rulers of the time did not understand the real added value that these navigators could bring to their territories (and even less to the whole of ...
5 days ago · The events of the last decade of the fifteenth century had changed the civilized world. On April 17, 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella had given their formal approval to Christopher Columbus for his voyage, putting at his disposal three tiny caravels—the largest of them little more than a hundred feet long.
4 days ago · 01 Christopher Columbus originally came from Genoa in Italy. Experts say he was born between August 25 and 31, 1451. 02 Columbus first sailed the seas at the age of 10. 03 Columbus later relocated to Portugal in 1477. 04 Throughout the 1480s, Columbus sailed the trade routes along the African coast.
1 day ago · 1493 – Pope Alexander VI allows Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World; 1494 – First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic; 1495 – The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.
