3 August 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, with three ships, on its first voyage to the Americas.
August 3, 2024
3 August 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, with three ships, on its first voyage to the Americas.
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Christopher Columbus (born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy — died on 20 May 1506, in Valladolid, Spain) was a master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas.
He has long been called the “discoverer” of the New World, although Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America five centuries earlier.
I wish this had never happened
A day people celebrate as something great, while is the day the biggest genocide ever took place in the past 1000 years has started.
As a consequence, Bahama would be completely empty from humans for the next 200 years and 90 % of natives on the Hispaniola island would be dead in two decades
Fun fact: Santa Maria was such a small bathtub of a boat that, even after almost 25 years of sailing, I would not dare to go further than 10 NM from shore with it, let alone set sail across the atlantic. Still, these people somehow got lucky and did it.
And the massacre he caused at Canary Islands where his men enslaved and slauthered the local guannchi people. That’s when they Spain took Canary Island as their territory and today Canary islands is Spain.
Before everyone starts bitching about the Vikings; Columbus gets the credit because *his* discovery is what connected the Old World to the New World. It’s recognition of the impact of the discovery and he’s the one that did it.
And remember, 90% of indigenous died by 1600. While this doesn’t excuse the various genocides that occurred afterwards by the various European powers, I don’t believe it’s fair to claim it was intentional or somehow their fault that 90% were wiped out in effectively a hundred years.
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Christopher Columbus (born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy — died on 20 May 1506, in Valladolid, Spain) was a master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas.
He has long been called the “discoverer” of the New World, although Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America five centuries earlier.
I wish this had never happened
A day people celebrate as something great, while is the day the biggest genocide ever took place in the past 1000 years has started.
As a consequence, Bahama would be completely empty from humans for the next 200 years and 90 % of natives on the Hispaniola island would be dead in two decades
Fun fact: Santa Maria was such a small bathtub of a boat that, even after almost 25 years of sailing, I would not dare to go further than 10 NM from shore with it, let alone set sail across the atlantic. Still, these people somehow got lucky and did it.
And the massacre he caused at Canary Islands where his men enslaved and slauthered the local guannchi people. That’s when they Spain took Canary Island as their territory and today Canary islands is Spain.
Before everyone starts bitching about the Vikings; Columbus gets the credit because *his* discovery is what connected the Old World to the New World. It’s recognition of the impact of the discovery and he’s the one that did it.
And remember, 90% of indigenous died by 1600. While this doesn’t excuse the various genocides that occurred afterwards by the various European powers, I don’t believe it’s fair to claim it was intentional or somehow their fault that 90% were wiped out in effectively a hundred years.