Columbus-Jake

<Map of Columbus' first voyage Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian-born explorer who managed to sail all the way across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. He was hoping to find a new route to India and the Spice Islands where he could get spices. He made four trips to the Carribean and South America from 1492 to 1504. Columbus had first sailed for King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain. When Columbus made his first trip with only three ships---the Niña (captained by Vicente Yáñez Pinzon), the Pinta (owned and captained by Martin Alonzo Pinzon), and the Santa Maria (captained by Columbus), and almost 90 crew members. They docked off from Palos, Spain of August 3, 1492, and finally found the Carribean Islands on October 11 that year. They hit an island called Guanahani, but Columbus "renamed" it San Salvador and established a settlement on the island. The local Tainos went over to the coast where the the big, wooden vessel had hit. Columbus' men then captured a few of the Tainos and made them as slaves. Columbus thought he made it to the Indies, so he called the Tainos, Indians. When Columbus was exploring the other islands for gold, his men had traveled off to Hispaniola (now the two countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Cuba, and a lot of other islands around the area. The return trip was unexpecting because the Santa Maria was wrecked and Martin Alonzo Pinzon used the Pinta to sail away by himself to try to beat Columbus back to Spain. Columbus had to return to Spain on the Nina. He then got back to Spain on March 15, 1493.

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