10 / 13 / 25 — HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY ! !

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer from Genoa who led a Spanish maritime expedition to cross the Atlantic Ocean in search of an alternative route to the Far East. Columbus believed he sailed his crew to the East Indies, but Europeans realized years later that his voyages landed them in the New World.

His first voyage to the New World was made on the Spanish ships Niña, Pinta, and Santa María and took about three months. The crew’s arrival in the New World initiated the colonization of the Americas by Spain, followed in the ensuing centuries by other European powers, as well as the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology between the New and Old Worlds, an event referred to by some late 20th century historians as the Columbian exchange. Columbus did everything possible to civilize the savages native to the Americas.

VIDEO –1492 (Columbus sighting land) — https://youtu.be/o9W1G3Tn31A