Columbus wasn’t a very nice person, but either way has a holiday to celebrate, what is possibly the greatest discovery of all mankind. America. Some find the holiday to be a blessing, in the fact that almost everyone gets a day off at work, and kids only care because they get to stay home for the day. Others, find the day to be an example of how stupid America is, and how a heartless leader and crew enslaved, raped, and murdered many ‘’Indians’’. Some people think Columbus day should be celebrated
Christopher Columbus's voyage to the new world is one dubbed by many historians as a rather pivotal point in the cultivation and settlement of what we now know as modern day America. However I find this statement to be a little too general. Though it is Columbus who is given credit for finding the Americas this is not entirely true. Recent historical research has shown us that many people had voyaged to the Americas long before Columbus's time. From the Scandinavian Vikings to the Asians and all
that sending Christopher Columbus to the new world was worth the cost because the new world had beautiful mountains, great farms, gold, metals and other interesting things. According to the article (Christopher Columbus Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain) Columbus sent back letters that described the landscape of the new lands and what he also found like gold and metals. To colonize new land means you get to explore and find all the new elements of the environment. When Columbus met with the
The discovery of the new world takes one back to the year 1492. Christopher Columbus, under the mandate of the Spanish Monarchs, embarks on a journey traveling West from Spain, with the intention of reaching the Indies. Sailing for the purpose of finding the three G’s: God, Glory, and Gold, as ordered by his majesties and stated in Christopher Columbus Journal from His First Voyage, Columbus commenced his journey for various egotistic reasons. He was promised, upon discovery, that a portion of the
Italian explorer known as Christopher Columbus set sail on a voyage that would revolutionize the world beyond the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration started in the fifteenth century when Europeans began to explore the world's oceans to search for trade routes, colonize new territories, expand religions, and collect riches such as spices, gold, and more. The phrase in which showed the motives for European exploration was “God, Glory, and Gold”. Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous
circumstances that allowed Christopher Columbus to sail for the New World representing Spain. European natives had a fierce desire for goods from Asia, especially seasonings and spices. This desire was fueled by Marco Polo’s stories inspiring Europeans to find new ways to trade with Asia, including a sea route.. These factors encouraged Spain to hire Columbus to sail across the Atlantic ocean to find a new route to India. Instead, he found an entirely new continent. Who Columbus was as a person is debated
You all remember the famous nursery rhyme “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two”, but you should know Christopher Columbus wasn’t actually the first to set foot on American soil (he thought he was in India) he only started the exploration to the “New World”. Many people wanted to leave Europe in search of religious freedom, gold, or glory. The Fab 5 including five of Europe’s countries trying to find a direct sea route to Asia to trade without any middle men. These five
Imagine that you are Christopher Columbus and you are on your first voyage in the Americas. You keep a journal where you take note of everything that you see, so that you can present it to Queen Isabella upon your return to Spain in order to convince her to continue to fund you. I am Christopher Columbus and I am going to write a journal of what I saw on my first voyage to the Americas which was very interesting. Dated August 3, 1492 after being convinced that Queen Isabella was going to
Samuel Hutchison History 1301 11 September 2015 Voyage of Columbus Who was Christopher Columbus? How did he carry out his voyages? Was he a hero or a villain? Let me answer these questions. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer or voyager who was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. He is known to have discovered America, although there were many people already living there. But there is more to know than just this. Christopher Columbus started as sailor at a very young age of nineteen, although
characteristics, enough so to be the role models of so many young children. Christopher Columbus was a greedy man, who didn’t care about the effects that his blind ambition had on others. Yet, we still celebrate him an equal amount as the formerly mentioned American heros. Highland Park High School should not celebrate Christopher Columbus day because his personal characteristics are unworthy of such celebration. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451, in Genoa, Italy. He was born in the