HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Pacific
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Atlantic
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Indian
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Arctic
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Detailed explanation-1: -On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Columbus was an Italian but his voyages were financed by the Queen of Spain. He was the first to sail across the Atlantic ocean in 1472 with three ships-the Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pinta with 88 crew members.
Detailed explanation-3: -On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.
Detailed explanation-4: -On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia.
Detailed explanation-5: -Polynesian navigators were the first to cross the Pacific from west to east by island-hopping from the coast of China to the Americas.