1498 On May 30th, Columbus led a fleet of six ships with 200 people and set sail for the third time. Columbus divided the fleet into two groups to anchor from San Rugar, three ships headed for Haiti, and the other three ships sailed westward under Columbus' guidance, crossing the Cape Verde Islands, and discovered Trinidad on August 1 day. On August 5, he landed on the Paria Peninsula in Venezuela and set foot on the South American continent for the first time.

August 3 1 Return to Santo Domingo. At this time, the Spaniards on the island of Haiti are fighting for power and interests. Although Columbus implemented the entrusted guardianship system to appease, it still could not stabilize the situation. 1500 In June, Columbus and his two younger brothers were forcibly brought back to Spain. Although he was released after Columbus, he lost the right to rule the land he discovered.

Columbus voyage:

1492 On Columbus's first voyage, he landed in a place called "San Salvador" in the Bahamas, instead of Japan as planned. During the next three voyages, Columbus reached the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, Venezuela and Central America on the Caribbean coast, and declared them the territory of the Spanish Empire. 1506 On May 20th, Columbus died.

Although Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach America, his voyage brought the first continuous contact between Europe and America, which opened a great era for Europeans to explore and colonize overseas territories for centuries and had an inestimable impact on the historical development of modern western countries.