Essays on Christopher Columbus

The story of Christopher Columbus is one of great controversy and mystery, as historical accounts and myths are often used interchangeably by individuals without consciously knowing so. Children’s biographies function as a prime example of the confused custom of myth, misconception, and legend surrounding Columbus;...

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages a cross the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus had embarked with intent to find and develop a westward route to the...

How would you like it if someone simply came to your home and enslaved you. On October 12, 1492 Columbus saw land, and said “I claimed the island for Spain” he thought he was at the East Indies but he was at a small island...

In the past, European countries came to the Americas looking to build their empire and gain power. They were competing to be the most powerful country and improve their economic lives. In the drive to be the most powerful European country, they started colonizing the...

Bigotry. Racism. Slavery. Words that seem to be used quite often in a generation full of passion to understand different concepts. This new concept and need to dig for more facts and information, to take a stand and scream your opinion, it all leaves a...

Christopher Columbus was and always will be an arguable figure on what he accomplished and what he discovered. Christopher Columbus was known to discover the Americas known as “the new world”. During the process of “discovering” the Americas, Christopher Columbus tried to find a quicker...

The official history of Costa Rica began in 1503 when Christopher Columbus landed on the coast of Puerto Limon and marked the beginning of the Spanish colonization of Central America. Before that Costa Rica like most of the Latin American countries had been inhabited by...

Many people know Christopher Columbus, whether it be from in school or hearing about Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus’s real name was actually Cristoforo Colombo. Columbus was born in 1451 and passed away in 1506. Columbus’s parents’ names were Domenico and Susanna Fontanarossa. Columbus was married...

One of the more controversial topics currently under debate in the field of Asian history is that if the Chinese discover America before Columbus. In 1405, a Chinese eunuch, Zheng He, launched the first of seven voyages west from China across the Indian Ocean. Over...

Architecture in the Caribbean, from since the arrival of Columbus in 1942, has evolved throughout the years to accommodate the climatic conditions. The tropics; those countries located within the region of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, share similar climatic aspects with...