Nov 15, 2009

Salem on History | Columbus Lands in America

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Series: Chronology of European History
Categories: Discovery, Exploration, Geography
Subcategories: Ships, Naval History, Explorers
Curriculum: Renaissance History, American Pre-Colonial History (to 1606), Spanish/Portuguese History
Geographical Location: Spain, Cuba, West Indies, Bahamas
Date: October 12, 1492

Article abstract: Columbus lands in America, ending the isolation of the Western Hemisphere from the Old World and Eastern Hemisphere and extending exploration, migration, and cultural exchange.

Summary of Event

At the end of the fifteenth century, the domination of the eastern Mediterranean by the Turks and the obstruction of land routes by the recently triumphant Ottomans at Constantinople had made the old avenues of East-West trade costly and dangerous. The Venetians clung tenaciously to the old routes, while the Genoese and Florentines explored trade...

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Salem on History | Columbus Lands in America

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Summary of Event

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