In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

It ended with two pages of important dates in American history, beginning with Columbus's in 1492 and ending with the battle of Yorktown in 1781.

Two of Columbus's crewmen during his 1492 journey, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, are said to have encountered tobacco for the first time on the island of Hispaniola, when natives presented them with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.

Thus, during Columbus's second voyage, Benedictine friars accompanied him, along with twelve other priests.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Genoese explorer Cristopher Columbus's speculative proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

Columbus's economy is based on agriculture and manufacturing, with many industrial companies attracted by cheap, plentiful hydroelectric power.

King John II's only response to this was that under the Treaty of Alcáçovas previously signed with Spain, Columbus's discoveries lay within Portugal's sphere of influence.

Keegan suggests that the confusion of spellings was due to grammatically differing forms of the name for the chief and for the village or island, or was simply due to Columbus's difficulty with the Lucayan language.

The eponymous painting deals with Christopher Columbus's first landing in the New World ; it depicts the event metaphorically rather than aiming at historical accuracy.

He first visited the New World with the crew of Christopher Columbus's second voyage in 1493.

It corresponds particularly well with Columbus's notion of the Earth, and makes the notion of a jump across that little Ocean Sea to the Far East irresistible ; he and Behaim drew their information from the same sources.

Columbus's published diary of the voyage was heavily edited by Bartolomé de las Casas, so it is impossible to know what was actually written at the time and what added later, but the diary launches a series of accusations against Pinzón beginning with his separation on November 21:

Although most of the Diario is written in the third-person of Las Casas, nearly all of that portion dealing with Columbus's movements in the Bahamas is in the first person of Columbus himself, and is ( according to Las Casas ) a direct quote from the Barcelona copy.

After his sophomore season, Fitzgerald was recognized as the best player in the NCAA with the 2003 Walter Camp Award and the Touchdown Club of Columbus's Chic Harley Award, and as the best wide receiver in college football with the 2003 Biletnikoff Award and the Touchdown Club's Paul Warfield Award.

The mainland in the extreme northwest is labeled with place-names from Columbus's voyages along the coasts of Cuba.

" Taibbi also takes issue with the title, noting that " The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one.

Always striking or shooting zombies with a double tap is one of Columbus's rules in the movie Zombieland.

The African slave trade began almost immediately after, with the Portuguese taking hundreds of captives back to their country for use as slaves ; however, it would not begin on a grand scale until Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas and the subsequent demand for cheap colonial labor.

Following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas for Spain, the Spanish sent numerous expeditions to the region, and they began their conquest of Maya lands in the 1520s.

The Spanish started seizing Lucayans as slaves within a few years of Columbus's arrival, and they had all been removed from the Bahamas by 1520.

In the Biblioteca Columbina, they are forced to decipher Columbus's private notes hand-written in a secret, unknown code by means of the Woodchuck Guidebook, to find out Columbus had the library moved to Santo Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but Ferdinand II of Aragon soon found out and had Columbus put into chains.

The Spanish Empire became one of the first global powers as Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand funded Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

Such an argument was forwarded by the Spanish theologian Alonso Tostado as late as the 15th century and " St. Augustine doubts " was a response to Columbus's proposal to sail westwards to the Indies.

Columbus had supposedly gained charts and descriptions from a Spanish navigator, who had " sojourned ... and died also " at Columbus's home in Madeira, after having made landfall on Antillia.

It was the legal basis of Don Christopher Columbus's authority as viceregal agent of the Spanish crown in the Americas.

Spanish ships had brought goods from the New World since Christopher Columbus's first expedition of 1492.

The book was a translation of a Spanish manuscript written by Columbus's second son, Fernando Colón, between 1537 and 1539.

One of the most notable examples of the Columbus commemoratives was released when The United States issued its first commemorative stamp in 1893, the $ 1 Columbian Exposition issue, " Isabella pledging her jewels ", one of a set of 16 commemoratives issued to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

Marco Polo's description of the Far East and its riches inspired Christopher Columbus's decision to try to reach Asia by sea, in a westward route.

Q-FM-96 was an early champion of, and outlet for, Columbus's vibrant rock music community, and was particularly notable for its " Hometown Album Project ", a series of compilation LPs featuring local artists, which debuted shortly after the station signed on.

The former colonial palace in Santo Domingo, originally built for Christopher Columbus's son Diego in 1509, is commonly known as the Alcázar de Colón ( Columbus's Alcázar ) and is built after the Andalusian style.

They have been found in the Caribbean and the Atlantic coasts of Africa and South America for less than 500 years, but evidence of their presence on the Pacific coast of South America predates Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

In regard to the Americas, the archaeological finds in L ' Anse aux Meadows in present-day northern Newfoundland, Canada — to which the investigators had been led partly by the 16th-century Skálholt Map — show there was a Viking settlement there ( around 1000 ) which, while unsuccessful and short-lived, predates by five centuries Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Caribbean islands in 1492 and John Cabot's voyage to North America in 1497.

But he was young and adventuresome, and the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, commemorating Columbus's discovery of America, drew him to the Midwest.

Luis de Torres ( died 1493 ), perhaps born as יוסף בן הלוי העברי, Yosef Ben Ha Levy Haivri, (" Joseph the Son of Levy the Hebrew ") was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage and the first person of Jewish origin to settle in America.

Perhaps Rhos-on-Sea's greatest claim to fame is that, according to legend, Madog ap Owain Gwynedd, a Welsh prince of Gwynedd, sailed from here in 1170 and discovered America, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's famous voyage in 1492.

" She became a freelance correspondent to the Chicago Tribune, and was commissioned to write a commemorative ode for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America.

Madoc or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492.

Calabash had been cultivated in Asia, Europe and the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus's discovery of America.

The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493.

Within a few decades of Christopher Columbus's landing on the coast of what is now Venezuela in 1498, South America had been effectively conquered by Spain and Portugal.

Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn was noted for his early advocacy of the theory that the Vikings had explored North America centuries before Christopher Columbus's and John Cabot's voyages.

In the aftermath of the war, the student movement declined considerably, and the PSN faded away by 1994, after doing organizing in 1992 against the celebration of 500 years since Christopher Columbus's 1492 ' discovery ' of America ; against the coup in Haiti that overthrew elected leader Jean Bertrand Aristide ; and in support of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.

These magnificent horses were brought to America on Columbus's second voyage to the new world.

On October 12, 1492, while on Christopher Columbus's ship La Pinta, he sighted America.

The building was to be a celebration of the progress that women had made in the 400 years since Columbus's discovery of America.