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alternative explanation of this landmass's origin and identity. Ample evidence suggests that this landmass represents Christopher Columbus's discoveries of the north coast of Cuba on his first voyage and the south coast of Cuba on his second voyage, voyages on which he claims to have discovered ...
Does a 600-year-old Chinese map prove that Christopher Columbus was not the first to explore the New World?Gavin Menzies says in his book Who Discovered America? that the settling of North Americ a by non-native people is more complex than previous thought; he also points out in an interv...
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It is the site of the first European settlement in the Americas founded by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493. It is the second largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba. St. Domingue (Haiti) In 1791, the slaves and some free people of color of Saint-Domingue began wa...
It seemed too good to be true. Acquired by Yale University andpublicized to great fanfarein 1965, theVinland Map—supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly presenting medieval Scandinavians, not Christopher Columbus, as the true “disc...
Wagner, Henry Raup (1928): “Spanish voyages to the northwest coast in the sixteenth century: chapter V: the occupation of the Philippines and the discovery of the return route”. In:California Historical Society Quarterly 7.2: 132–193.10.2307/25177938Search in Google Scholar –(1968): The ca...
Nearly all the important early voyages in the age of discovery are present, including those of Columbus, Da Gama, Marco Polo and Magellan. The maps are hugely important and were produced by the geographer Gastaldi. The map of South East Asia is particularly important as it is the first to...
By using the word "Colonization" that ambiguity is hopefully avoided.;Colonization of Americas began in 1492 by European when Spanish voyages headed by Christopher Columbus (an Italian Sailor) sailed west to find a new trade route to the East but unexpectedly found the Americas.;The primary goal...
Christopher Columbus(born between August 26 and October 31?, 1451, Genoa [Italy]—died May 20, 1506,Valladolid, Spain) was a master navigator andadmiralwhose four transatlanticvoyages(1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way forEuropean exploration, exploitation, andcolonizat...