In the early modern age, the voyages of Columbus initiated European exploration and colonization of the American continents, and are of great significance in world history. Christopher Columbus was a navigator and an admiral of Castile, a country that later founded the actual Spain. He made four voyages to the Americas, with his first in 1492, which resulted in what is widely referred to as the Discovery of America. He did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage, in 1498, when he reached South America, and the fourth voyage, when he reached Central America. Columbus' discovery subsequently led to the major European sea powers' sending expeditions to the New World to build trade networks and to convert the native peoples to Christianity. Pope Alexander VI divided the new lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal, in the Treaty of Tordesillas. This division was never accepted by the rulers of England or France

Christopher Colombus started his first voyage to asia the east part of the world,to explore and discovering new routes for spices. The 3 of August of 1492, colombus and his crew departed from Castilian "Palos de la frontera (Huelva)". Columbus went firts to the Canary Islands. He stayed there for four weeks because of the need for repair and refit. Columbus left the island of Gomera on the 6th of September of 1492

Colon and the three ships: the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria. Santa Maria de la Inmaculada Concepción was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage.

Was one of three ships used by Comubus in his first voyage towards the Indies in On Columbus' first expedition,La Niña carried 24 men, captained by Vicente Pinzon. They left Palos de la Frontera on August 3, 1492.

Was the fastest of the three ships used Christopher Columbus in his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in The New World was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on October 12, 1492.

He left the port of Cadiz, Spain, on the 25th of september of 1493 aboard the Mariagalante, his flagship.After the success of Columbus's first voyage, he had little trouble convincing the Spanish Sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabela, to follow up immediately with a second voyage. The second voyage was a big colonization effort, with 17 ships and more or less a thousand men and boys including sailors, soldiers, colonists, priests, officials, gentlemen of the court, and horses. Although Columbus kept a log of his second voyage, only very small fragments survive. Before Columbus left Spain on his second voyage, he had been directed by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain friendly, even loving, relations with the indigenous people, the natives.

Here we can see the route that Colunbus and all the people that went in thah voyage follow:

Columbus left the port of Sanlucar in southern Spain on the 30th of May of 1498 with six ships, he went to the New World for the third time. After stopping at the islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, the fleet arrived at Gomera in the Canary Islands on the 19th of June. At this point, the fleet split into two groups: three ships sailed directly for Hispaniola with supplies for the colonists there; but the other three, commanded by Columbus, were on a mission of exploration, trying to find any lands south of the known islands in the Indies

Columbus regularly used acts of violence to govern Hispaniola. Columbus and his brothers were in jail for six weeks before the busy King Ferdinand ordered their release. Not long after, the king and queen called Columbus' brothers to their presence at the Alhambra palace in Granada. There, the royal couple heard the brothers' petition; restored their freedom and their wealth; and, after much persuasion, agreed to go on Columbus' fourth voyage. From that point forward, Nicolas de Ovando was designed to be the new Governor of the Indias.

On the 11th of May of 1502, four old ships and more or less 140 men under Columbus's command sailed from the port of Cadiz. At age fifty one, Columbus was old, sick, and he wasn't welcome in his old home base of Hispaniola. But the Admiral felt he had one more voyage left in him. The purpose of the trip was to find a strait linking the Indies (which Columbus still thought to be part of Asia, and died thinking this) with the Indian Ocean. This strait was known to exist, since Marco Polo had travelled through it on his way back from China. In effect, Columbus was looking for the Strait of Malacca in Central America.

Columbus wrote a diary in his fourth voyage in wich he puts: For nine days I was as one lost, without hope of life. Eyes never beheld the sea so angry, so high, so covered with foam. The wind not only prevented our progress, but offered no opportunity to run behind any headland for shelter; hence we were forced to keep out in this bloody ocean, seething like a pot on a hot fire. Never did the sky look more terrible; for one whole day and night it blazed like a furnace, and the lightning broke with such violence that each time I wondered if it had carried off my spars and sails; the flashes came with such fury and frightfulness that we all thought that the ship would be blasted. All this time the water never ceased to fall from the sky; I do not say it rained, for it was like another deluge. The men were so worn out that they longed for death to end their dreadful suffering

In this last voyage of Columbus, he follow this route:

. It was on November 7, 1504 when Christopher Columbus set foot on Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Castile, and officially finished his last and most memorable voyage