Christopher Columbus

its christopher columbus, and he is a famous explorer of the 1400's

Columbus "discovered" North America, But he was not the first one; vikings were the first. Columbus was the second, and he believed that he could find India by sailing westward.

So in effect, what Columbus did was provide an awareness of the new continent to Europeans, who soon after began to colonize the land.

cuz he was soo inteligent and prayed for us

Maize (corn), tobacco, and indigo were three of the biggest American exports to Europe when America was first discovered.

His aim was to open up a faster trading route to the Far East, because he thought that the lower estimates of the Earth's circumference were correct.

At the time, there were wide variances in the estimates of the westward distance between Europe and China, and the latitude of China is the same as the Mediterannean. So without the intervening Americas, it would be a shorter trip than sailing around Africa. Later Spanish explorers eventually realized that they had not reached the East Indies, although the name "indian" had already been applied to Native Americans, who were similarly darker-skinned than Europeans.

That would have been in 1492, the time of his discovery of the islands.

the europeans called the native Americans red Indians because christopher Columbus headed to India and thought he could get there by going in another direction he hit south America and presumeed he was in India however he was wrong and ever since everyone called them red Indians because of when christopher thought they were red Indians until a few years ago when it was anounced that it is politically incorrect to call native Americans red Indians

because the Indians helped and they helped and helped and then when the pilgrims arrived it was more helping then Goerge Washington was then when became older there was war and we won so that's how america changed <3

He doesn't have any kids.

yes christopher colubus met the native americans when he landed on america andyes i am a forth grader i know this trust meeeeeeeeee

Catholic saints and religious concepts.

yes he shure was

Columbus found gold items, animals, and Indian people. After King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella saw everything they paid for a second expedition.

Yes, very nice! They traded everything they had, they welcomed Columbus! Then, he backstabbed them, and treated them as servants and slaves. He raped the women and took six of them to use as slaves. He is not a good role model to me. He is also not a hero in my opinion. Why would he do that? Because, he was selfish. He wanted gold and he took their land. After they've been so kind to him. (C) Copyright- FunSleepyhead

She ran around off the present-day site of Môle Saint-Nicolas, Haiti on 25th December 1492, and was lost.and must have been sunk about 100-1000 years ago

The Europeans wanted a water route to Asia so they could keep enjoying the spices, silk, and wealth.

No.

the middle ages are generally considered to be the milennium from around the approximate point of collapse of the Roman Empire in 476AD, to Columbus' landing in the Americas in 1492.

There is no exact "start" and "end" dates to the middle ages however, with dates cited by some historians for both start and end differing greatly, and often referencing significant moments of history from their national perspective. While 1492 is significant for Americans, for example, for many in Europe, the conquest of constantinople in 1453 is considered the closing act of the middle ages.

He wanted to sail goods across the west to India because there were many silks and spices that the Europeans did not have access to at the time.

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Christopher Columbus made people change their minds about the shape of the earth although Galileo was the first to challenge the church by saying the earth was round and revolved around the sun.

Columbus never set eyes on the Mexican coast. Never sailed further west than the Caribbean.

87 ft long

When Queen Isabella and her husband, the king, finally did let Christopher Columbus go on the voyage, Christopher Columbus promised spices and jewels from "India" to assure the Queen and the King to not object him of his voyage to "India."

Answer : Never. Columbus never discovered the United States. The U.S. did not exist until well after Columbus was dead, 1776. Columbus found his way to what we now call North America in the year 1492.