FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Final Discovery
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Last Look
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High Voyage
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The Lost Passage
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 11, 1502, Christopher Columbus set out on his fourth and final voyage to the New World. He had four ships and his mission was to explore uncharted areas to the west of the Caribbean, hopefully finding a passage west to the Orient.
Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus made his transatlantic voyages under the sponsorship of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the Catholic Monarchs of Aragon, Castile, and Leon in Spain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 ‘discovery’ of the New World of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout Columbus’s life, he referred to himself as Christobal Colom; his contemporaries and family also referred to him as such. This is opposed to the Genoese translation “Cristoffa Corombo", or even the Italian “Cristoforo Colombo".