COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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America
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Asia
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Reformation
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Detailed explanation-1: -In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. Some people think of him as the “discoverer” of America, but this is not strictly true. His voyages across the Atlantic paved the way for European colonization and exploitation of the Americas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus Day: Christopher Columbus discovered the potato, tomato, tobacco and other New World crops-The Washington Post.