Christopher columbus

This Encyclopedia Britannica History list provides 5 strange facts about Christopher Columbus and his voyages.

Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 sailing on behalf of the Spanish crown in a new attempt to find a western route to Asia. He made four voyages...

Straight Talk About Christopher Columbus. Europeans acted the way that conquerors always did. We judge them harshly because they spread a then-novel idea: equality.

The explorer Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. His most famous was his first voyage, commanding the ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to the Americas.

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Different genetic laboratories will analyze samples of the mortal remains of relatives of Pedro Alvarez de Sotomayor, nicknamed Pedro Madruga, exhumed last week from two sarcophagi in the church of the convent of Santo Domingo in Tui, in Galicia (northern Spain), to determine if the remains are in fact those of Christopher Columbus. The quite complex task will be to try to extract DNA from remains buried in the 15th century to match them with the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus or his…

Learn about one of the most famous explorers of all times- Christopher Columbus, who he was, his childhood, his explorations, his contributions, and how the world remembers him today.