USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He wrapped each in a cloth. He put big cakes of wax around them. Columbus placed them in barrels. One barrel he tossed into the sea.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1492 Columbus set sail from Palos in Spain with three ships. Two, the Nina and the Pinta were caravels – small ships with triangular sails. The third, the Santa Maria, was a nao – a larger square-rigged ship. The ships were small, between 15 and 36 metres long.

Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus brought back small amounts of gold as well as native birds and plants to show the richness of the continent he believed to be Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher Columbus stopped in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1492 on his way to discovering the Americas not because he wanted to, but because his crew sabotaged his ship within three days of setting sail from Spain. Apparently they weren’t as convinced as he was that sailing west was a good idea.

Detailed explanation-5: -Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now referred to as the pre-Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani.