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Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus[a] led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. 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 often cited as the beginning of the modern era.

Date

1492, 1493, 1498 & 1502

The Americas

Christopher Columbus and Castilian crew (among others)

European discovery and colonization of the Americas

Born in the Republic of Genoa, Columbus was a navigator who sailed in search of a westward route to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands thought to be the East Asian source of spices and other precious oriental goods obtainable only through arduous overland routes.[1] Columbus was partly inspired by 13th-century Italian explorer Marco Polo in his ambition to explore Asia. His initial belief that he had reached "the Indies" has resulted in the name "West Indies" being attached to the Bahamas and the islands of the Caribbean.


At the time of Columbus's voyages, the Americas were inhabited by Indigenous Americans, and Columbus later participated in the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Columbus died in 1506, and the next year, the New World was named "America" after Amerigo Vespucci, who realized that it was a unique landmass. The search for a westward route to Asia was completed in 1521, when the Magellan expedition sailed across the Pacific Ocean and reached Southeast Asia, before returning to Europe and completing the first circumnavigation of the world.

Columbus Day

Columbus's vow

Exploration of North America

Lugares colombinos

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact

Knights of Colombus

(2011). Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504. Penguin Group US. ISBN 978-1101544327.

Bergreen, Lawrence

Dyson, John (1991). . Madison Press Books. ISBN 978-0-670-83725-0.

Columbus: For Gold, God and Glory

(2007). Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6281-2.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Joseph, Edward Lanzar (1838). . A. K. Newman & Co.

History of Trinidad

(1991) [1942]. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316584784. OCLC 559825317.

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Murphy, Patrick J.; Coye, Ray W. (2013). . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17028-3.

Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery

Phillips, William D. Jr.; Phillips, Carla Rahn (1992). . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35097-6.

The Worlds of Christopher Columbus

(2003) [1980]. A People's History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-052837-9.

Zinn, Howard

Landstrom, Bjorn, 1966. . Macmillan.

Columbus: The story of Don Cristobal Colon Admiral of the Ocean

Young, Filson, and Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven. . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available)

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery

Young, Alexander Bell Filson, , v. 2. J.B. Lippincott company, 1906 (ed., another version)

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven

Pastor, Ludwig, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, Ralph Francis Kerr, Ernest Graf, and E. F. Peeler. . St. Louis: Herder, 1899.

The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources

Kayserling, Meyer, and Charles Gross. . New York: Longmans, Green, 1894.

Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries

Winsor, Justin. . Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892.

Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

Tarducci, Francesco, and Henry F. Brownson. . Detroit: H.F. Brownson, 1890.

The Life of Christopher Columbus

Lester, C. Edwards, and Andrew Foster. . New Haven: H. Mansfield, 1856.

The Life and Voyage of Americus Vespucius, with Illustrations Concerning the Navigator and the Discovery of the New World

Lester, C. Edwards, Andrew Foster, and Amerigo Vespucci. . New York: Baker & Scribner, 1846.

The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius: With Illustrations Concerning the Navigator, and the Discovery of the New World

Media related to Maps of voyages by Christopher Columbus at Wikimedia Commons

European Voyages of Exploration: Christopher Columbus

Teaching about the Voyages of Columbus

on the History Channel

Columbus's Last Voyage