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trying to reclaim his former glory, Columbus
died at Valladolid on May 20, 1506.
Columbus’s death went unheralded by
the Spanish public and royalty. His failures to
reach Asia, to retrieve a grand treasure, or to
manage colonies diminished his stature,
especially as other explorers found greater
sources of wealth and pushed deeper into
newly discovered lands. Despite Columbus’s
own misidentification of the places he found
as being portions of Asia, however, his voy-
ages opened a new epoch of discovery that
would last for centuries, inspiring unprece-
dented exploration of the land and oceans of
the Western Hemisphere. For many of the
Native societies he and his successors
encountered, the coming changes would be
tragic and final. Columbus’s encounters with
the Americas immediately and permanently
altered the course of history, forcing people
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to view
their world differently.(^38) B Discovery of the Americas, 1492–1800
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