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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory Columbus returns from the West Indies to Spain.
Columbus is like The spread of Chinese guidelines, the development of European shipbuilding and navigation, provided conditions for ocean navigation and the opening of new routes. The first of which developed was the Portuguese, whose fleet sailed to the east; followed by the Spanish, who opened a different sea route and turned to the west. In 1486, navigator Columbus made a bold proposal to the Spanish king, saying that by sailing from the Atlantic to the West, it would be possible to reach China and India. This would be closer than Eastern. In April 1492, Queen Isabella and her husband, King Ferdinand, accepted his proposal and sent him to search for a royal route to the East in the name of the royal family, giving him the title of “Marine General” and pre-sanctioning him as the “Governor of the New Discovery of the Land.” At dawn on August 3, Columbus’s three sailboats and 87 sailors departed from the port of Barros, and 69 days later arrived in the Bahamas, and he named it “Saint Salvador” (meaning “Salvator”). He thought that this was India, so he called the natives “Indians”. The ship continued to the south, to Cuba and Haiti. There, he did not find gold and spices, but saw only some very backward and primitive barbarians and jungles. On March 15, 1493, Columbus left the West Indies to Spain. Afterwards, he continued to sail three times to the west to America, and successively discovered Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Dominica, etc., and reached the Central American cities of Honduras and Panama, laying the foundation for the Spanish colonial career. But until his death, Columbus discovered a new continent. March 15, 1493 Columbus, West Indies, Spain News raw data sources → https://today.help.bj.cn/show/?id=4645 17WorldNews[2025.09.28-08:05] 访问:85
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