Geography, asked by kajalchourasiya, 4 months ago

1. Though not the first to reach America from Europe, it was
his voyages that led to general European awareness
of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of
European cultures in the New World. He made his voyage
with three ships—Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta.
2. A Portuguese-born maritime explorer, he tried to find a
westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. This
voyage came to be known as the first successful attempt
at circumnavigation of the Earth. An important natural
passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans is
named after him.
3. The first Englishman to successfully sail around the world,
his exploits were semi-legendary and made him a hero to
the English, but to the Spaniards he was equated with the
devil.
4. Together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, this
Venetian explorer was one of the first Westerners to travel
the Silk Road to China and visit the great Kublai Khan.
5. A Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southern tip
of Africa in 1488, thus becoming the first European to do
so. He originally named the Cape of Good Hope as the
Cape of Storms.
Identify the explorer from the clues given.

Answers

Answered by radhajha656

Explanation:

Between 1492 and 1504, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus led four Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expeditions to the Americas, a continental landmass which was virtually unknown to and outside of the Old World (Afro-Eurasia). These voyages to America led to the widespread knowledge of its existence. This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as the Age of Discovery, which saw the colonization of the Americas, a related biological exchange, and trans-Atlantic trade. These events, the effects and consequences of which persist to the present, are sometimes cited as the beginning of the modern era.

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Part of the Age of Discovery

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The four voyages of Columbus (conjectural)[a]

Date

1492, 1493, 1498, 1502

Location

The Americas

Participants

Christopher Columbus and Castilian crew (among others)

Outcome

European rediscovery and colonization of the Americas

Born in the Republic of Genoa, Columbus was a navigator who sailed for the Crown of Castile (a predecessor to the modern Kingdom of Spain) in search of a westward route to the Indies, thought to be the East Asian source of spices and other precious oriental goods obtainable only through arduous overland routes. Columbus was partly inspired by 13th-century Italian explorer Marco Polo in his ambition to explore Asia and never admitted his failure in this, incessantly claiming and pointing to supposed evidence that he had reached the East Indies. Ever since, the islands of the Caribbean have been referred to as the West Indies.

At the time of Columbus' voyages, the Americas were inhabited by Indigenous Americans. Soon after first contact, Eurasian diseases such as smallpox began to devastate the indigenous populations, which had no immunity to them. Columbus participated in the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Native Americans, including by enslaving and brutally treating groups of them in the range of thousands. The exact figures and accuracy of some of the accounts of these events are still debated, in part due to an alleged historiographical disinformation campaign.

Following Columbus's death, in 1507, the Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci, who realized that these continents were a unique landmass. The search for a westward route to Asia was completed in 1521, when the Castilian Magellan-Elcano expedition sailed across the Pacific and reached Southeast Asia, before returning to Europe and completing the first circumnavigation of the world.

Background

Voyages and related events

Legacy