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Columbus made three further voyages to the Americas, exploring the Lesser Antilles in 1493, Trinidad and the northern coast of South America in 1498, and the east coast of Central America in 1502. Many names he gave to geographical features, particularly islands, are still in use.
- Who Discovered America? Inside The Historical Evidence
- Did Christopher Columbus Discover America?
- Leif Erikson: The Viking Who Found America
- Further Theories About The Discovery of America
When Europeans arrived in the New World, they almost immediately noticed other people who already made a home there. However, they too had to discover America at some point. So when was America discovered — and who actually found it first? Science has shown that during the last ice age, people journeyed across an ancient land bridge connecting mode...
Widely known as the man who discovered America, Christopher Columbusarrived in the Americas in 1492 in what has been described by many historians as the beginning of the Colonial Period. Though the explorer believed he’d reached the East Indies, he was actually in the modern-day Bahamas. Indigenous peoples with fishing spears greeted the men steppi...
Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer from Iceland, had adventuring in his blood. His father Erik the Red had founded the first European settlementon what is now called Greenland in 980 A.D. Born in Iceland around 970 A.D., Erikson likely grew up in Greenland before sailing east to Norway when he was around 30 years old. It was here that King Olaf I Trygg...
In 1937, an influential Catholic group known as the Knights of Columbus successfully lobbied both Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to honor Christopher Columbuswith a national holiday. They were eager to have a Catholic hero celebrated in regard to America’s founding. With the national holiday gaining traction in the decades since then,...
16 de may. de 2024 · Did Christopher Columbus discover America? Some people say Columbus discovered America or the "New World," but Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America centuries earlier, and Native American tribes had lived in the Americas for centuries before either Columbus or the Vikings arrived.
9 de nov. de 2009 · The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia,...
10 de oct. de 2016 · America was really discovered a people known as Pre-Clovis who crossed a land bridge between Asian and America 15,000 years ago
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12 de oct. de 2020 · His book on Columbus, more historical or romantic fiction than history, was interpreted as a scholarly work on the life and adventures of an intrepid European explorer who had “discovered America” and went on to inform United States' history up to the present day.
14 de ago. de 2020 · Christopher Columbus was born the son of an Italian wool merchant in 1451, in Genoa, Italy. Columbus spent most of his adult life working as a sailor, eventually studying mathematics and cartography, all while percolating the idea that he could find the new world.
