Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800
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explorers would seek the kingdom of Prester John, a legendary Christian priest who was thought to govern a wealthy empire some- ...
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The possibility that Asia could be reached by sailing west was accepted by some geogra- phers of the era, but none of the Europe ...
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FIRST VOYAGE Columbus’s tiny fleet set sail from Palos on August 3, 1492. After pausing to pick up sup- plies in the Canary Isla ...
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very big bracelets of gold on their legs and arms. I well believed that all they said was humbug in order to escape. However, it ...
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Columbus sailed east along the coast and made a second attempt at founding a trading colony, near present-day Puerto Plata on th ...
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Leaving his brothers Diego and Bartolomé in charge, Columbus sailed for Spain on March 10, 1496. Meanwhile, news of colonial dis ...
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Columbus assumed Paria was an island and christened it Isla de García. A year later, Alfonso de Ojeda’s expedition would name th ...
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agreed to fund Columbus’s fourth and final voy- age. Remembering Marco Polo’s account of voy- aging westward through the South C ...
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When Christopher Columbus returned from his first trip to “the Indies” in 1492, his royal rewards included gov- ernorship of all ...
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ful Florentine Medici family, remains the most controversial of these navigators. Vespucci made at least two and perhaps four vo ...
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