Exploration and Colonization

Columbus: Financed (Paid) by the Spanish to find a quick way to West Indies (India) An Italian Explorer who went to school in Portugal and was paid by the Spanish to find a new way to India by going west.

Christopher Columbus October 31, 1451 – May 20, 1506 was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the help of the Catholic King and Queen of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in Europe. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which led to the colonization of the "New World". Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española) is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Map of the 1400s What is missing?

Present 2011 Map of 1400s

Exploration is the act of searching or traveling a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information.

Columbus Lands in San Salvador

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