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Exellent Explorers

Introduction

Everyday we take a route to get to the school, a very familiar one, most of the times we are not even aware of which trail we are taking, sometimes we get lost but we have the security of knowing that at the end of the block we will have at least the name of the street and at worst there is always someone walking on the street that will be able to give yousome idea of how to rich your destiny. Things are this easy right now, imagine that five hundred years ago, in the sea and with no idea of where you are going, how long is it going to take to get you there (if you do it alive), and if the food will be enough. A very tough process was the one the explorers of the new world had to live back then, and even worse they had to give some kind of proofor recompense to the country that sponsored their trip. In this task we are going to do a little research the four most important explorers of the new world:     Christopher Columbus Christopher Newport Ponce de Leon Jacques Cartier

Having a little bit of background of the four of them we chose one in specific to go further; It was Ponce de Leon, this because one of the main reasons of whyhe was sponsored by Spain is the idea of finding the “Fountain of Youth”, which gives us also a little bit of information of the fantastic way of thinking they had. After getting a quite more consistent idea of the explorer we were asked to recreate the process a normal explorer had. In the following pages we will show you the research and the activities we did to get this task done.

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Christopher Columbus
Biography1
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the WesternHemisphere. Those

voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish the colonization, which

foreshadowed

general European

colonization of the "New World". In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic

competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes andcolonies, Columbus' far-fetched proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia. During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at alocale he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.
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This article was recovered online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus on September 12, 2011

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Though Columbus was not the first European explorerto reach the Americas, having been preceded, five centuries earlier, by the Norse expedition, led by Leif Ericson, that established the short-lived colony of Vinland in what is now Newfoundland, Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America and inaugurated a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries and had,therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world. Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of the spreading of the Christian religion. Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios(Spanish for...