Exploration

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Christopher Columbus
• Christopher Columbus is an Italian explorer and navigator from the
Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages
across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic
Monarches , opening the way for the widespread
European exploration and European colonization of the
amercas. His expeditions were the first known European
contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.
His adventures
• Columbus made four transatlantic voyages: 1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–
1500, and 1502–04. He travelled primarily to the Caribbean, including
the Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Jamaica, and in his latter two
voyages travelled to the coasts of eastern Central America and
northern South America.
His different voyages
• Between 1492 and 1504, Columbus completed four round-trip
voyages between Spain and the Americas, each voyage being
sponsored by the Crown of Castile. On his first voyage he
reached the Americas, initiating the
European exploration and conolisation of the continent as well
as the Columbian exchange. His role in history is thus important
to the age of discovery, Western history, and human history writ
large.
His first voyage (1492-1493)
• Christopher Columbus left Palos in 1492, went to the Bahamas, Cuba
and then to Santa Domingo. Before he went back to Palos in 1493 he
stopped at Lisbon.
His second voyage (1493-1496)

• He departed from S. Lucar in 1493, went to

Guadeloupe then to Cuba but on the other side
of the island. Then went to Jamaica and went
back to S Lucar and arrived in 1496.
 • He left from Cadiz in 1498, went to Cape Verda.
Then he went to Cumana, Caracas then to Santo
His third voyages Domingo before going back to Portugal. He
( 1498-1500) arrived in Saint Lucar in 1500.
His fourth and last • For his last won he left from Cadiz in 1502. He
discovered Martinique.
voyages (1502-1504) Then he passed Guadeloupe went to Santo
Domingo, Cuba and then went to a place were he
had never been: Central America.