The story of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America
The Italian traveler Christopher Columbus was born on the twenty-second of August 1451 AD in Genoa, Italy, and received his studies at the University of Pavia. He studied mathematics and the natural sciences, and was colonial at that time as well. The name of Christopher Columbus was associated with the name of America, because it is thanks to him that he discovered it during his famous trip in 1492, and he died on May 20 of 1506 AD in Spain after suffering a health problem and deteriorating health. He entered into a long struggle with illness and then death at the age of fifty-four, and he was buried without any funeral ceremonies that were prevalent in that era, and his house in Valladolid, where he died, was turned into a museum.
The traveler Columbus set out on his expedition, arriving in the Caribbean islands on the twelfth of October of 1492 AD, and this was the first voyage, while on his second voyage it was six years after the first voyage, it was in the year 1498 AD, and that year was the discovery of the new world the continent American, but some indications indicate that there is a connection and communication between the European and American continents long before Columbus was able to discover it.
The idea of the expedition came to the mind of the traveler Columbus for several reasons, the most important of which are: achieving fame, and then getting rich as a result, and his intolerance to Catholicism had a motivation to continue to move forward to find a path other than the one that crosses Muslim countries, or the country of the "Mohammedans", as he said. And as his adventurous spirit drove him to delve into the experiment of the theory of scholars of his time; They asserted that by virtue of the spherical shape of the Earth, access to the continent of Asia and the Indian subcontinent is not limited to flights to the eastern side, but it is also possible to turn west and reach these continents, and he relied on this trip on the most recent map of that era: two maps of the worlds Paolo Toscanelli, And the German Martin Beckham.
Columbus addressed
the Portuguese king’s advisor in a letter to him informing him of his ability to prove the sphericity of the earth, and that he would like to open a new sea route that passes through the port and islands of Portugal attached to his map. At the end of April of the year 1492 AD Christopher Columbus concluded an agreement with the Spanish Catholic kings, which stipulated the recognition of Columbus as a discoverer of islands and continents in the sea and the ocean, and also pledged to grant Christopher Columbus according to a royal decision the rank of Prince of the Seas and Oceans, thus obtaining 10% of the gold and goods that He will bring it with him upon his return without imposing any taxes on it.
The ships set off all loaded with their crews, and the exploration began. On the twelfth of October, he was able to discover the San Salvador Islands, which are now called the Bahamas, and after sixteen days, the sailors were able to reach Cuba, and on the sixteenth of December 1492 AD Two of the three ships returned to Spain, namely Pinta and Nina, and the return voyage took three months to dock in the Spanish port on the fifteenth of March 1493 AD. It was the longest cruise at that time, and it is worth noting that Columbus' voyages were crowned with success, as he was able to bring quantities of gold, and he was also able to own many islands that were called the Indian islands, and the King and Queen of Spain enjoyed this discovery. Columbus continued his exploration voyage, and was always a long-term view of further exploration, and equipped a naval fleet of seventeen ships carrying one thousand five hundred sailors, equipped with supplies sufficient for a period of more than six months, and this voyage did not fail as well, but was able to discover More modern islands, including the Antilles and then the Caribbean Sea on the southern side of Cuba, and he crossed all these distances in order to reach and search for India. In 1494 AD, Columbus's ships landed in Jamaica, which enabled him to reach many islands in the east of the American continent, and despite that, he did not reach India until this moment. A group of scholars sparked a debate about Columbus’s discovery of the new world “America,” and the controversy of these scholars was based on manuscripts that Christopher Columbus wrote with his own hand indicating that upon his arrival in America he had found African antiquities, and it is noteworthy that a Malian emperor had discovered America two hundred years ago. A year since Columbus arrived.
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