FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Caravels of Columbus Columbus set sail from Spain in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. On August 3, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus started his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 30 May 1498, Columbus left with six ships from Sanlúcar, Spain, for his third trip to the Americas.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than half a millennium after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his three ships-the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria-remain lost to history. The 15th century explorer landed in the present-day Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, ending the pre-Columbian era in the New World.
Detailed explanation-4: -For Columbus’s maiden journey, he used a Spanish update to the caravel known as the caravela redonda, a three-masted ship where the first two masts were rigged with conventional square sails for open-ocean speed, and a third was rigged with a lateen sail for coastal maneuverability.