Voyage to The New World: Christopher Columbus

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When we think of Christopher Columbus we think of his great voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. He may not have been the first to “discover” America but he definitely made some great attributes to the knowledge of the new continent. He did not discover the whole continent in one voyage; this is the same with other countries that made their voyages or migrations to the continent that was untouched. Not only did it take him time to get across the ocean to his discoveries that were to be made but it also took lots of money and many people of power to back his exploration up.
Columbus was not the first to discover America there were many other voyages made by other countries to the new continent, which held so much of the unknown. Almost all of the other countries made at least one voyage to the new world to find out what it held. Almost 12,000 to 42,000 years ago the Asians found the Bering Strait and migrated across it to North America. Then the Vikings had a short voyage circa 1000, they established a settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Even Columbus took many different voyages between 1492 and 1500 to discover different parts of the continent (Bartosik-Velez 3).
The first European power to take interest in the voyage was Portugal. They wanted to follow the idea of new trade routes overseas. It took Spain until the 15th century to become committed to looking for trade routes. In 1485 King John the II of Portugal said he would equip Columbus with three ships and a single year to sail west in the Atlantic Ocean. This was not enough for Columbus he requested to be deemed the “Great Admiral of the Ocean Sea”. This stated that he was the governor of all of the land he would discover. He also wanted one-te...

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...story. He discovered America and made it known on the map, while in the mean time finding trade routes and many things that he discovered to trade. If Columbus went on four different voyages to discover different parts of the land and named these things.

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