Columbus Discovered the New World Christopher Columbus (145l-1506) was a famous Spanish navigator and a pioneer in geographical discoveries.

When Columbus was young, he was a believer in the theory of a round earth. He highly admired Marco, who had served as a prisoner in Genoa.

Polo, determined to be a navigator.

He crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times between 1492 and 1502 and discovered the American continent, making him a famous navigator in history.

Columbus was an Italian who loved sailing adventures since childhood.

He had read "The Travels of Marco Polo" and wanted to go to India and China very much.

At that time, the theory of a round earth was already very popular, and Columbus was convinced of it.

He successively requested funding from the kings of Portugal, Spain, England, France and other countries to realize his plan to sail westward to reach eastern countries, but was rejected.

On the one hand, the theory of the round earth is not yet complete, and many people do not believe it and regard Columbus as a charlatan.

Once, at a special review committee on the Columbus Plan in Spain, a committee member asked Columbus: Even if the earth is round and sailing westward can reach the east and return to the port of departure, then one part of the voyage must be climbing up from below the earth.

Slope, how can a sailboat climb up?

On this issue, Columbus, who was eloquent and eloquent, was at a loss for words.

On the other hand, at that time, Western countries' demand for Eastern material wealth was not only traditional silk, porcelain, and tea, but the most important ones were spices and gold.

Among them, spices are indispensable materials for Europeans' daily life and cooking. They are in great demand but are not produced locally.

At that time, these commodities were mainly transported via traditional sea and land transport routes.

Vested interests in these commodities also strongly opposed Columbus's plan to open a new sea route.

Columbus lobbied for more than ten years to realize his plan.

It wasn't until 1492 that the Spanish Queen recognized heroes. She persuaded the king and even used her own private money to fund Columbus, so that Columbus' plan could be implemented.

On August 3, 1492, Columbus was dispatched by the King of Spain, carrying letters of credence to the Indian monarch and the Emperor of China, and led three sailing ships of more than 100 tons, sailed out of the Atlantic Ocean from the Port of Barros, Spain, and sailed straight west.

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After seventy days and nights of arduous sailing, land was finally discovered in the early morning of October 12, 1492.

Columbus thought he had reached India.

It was later learned that the land Columbus landed on belonged to the Bahamas Islands in what is now the Palestinian Sea in Central America. He named it San Salvador at the time.

On March 15, 1493, Columbus returned to Spain.

After that he repeated his westward voyage three times and landed on many coasts of America.

Until his death in 1506, he believed he had arrived in India.

Later, an Italian scholar named Amerigo, after more investigation, realized that the places Columbus reached were not India, but a new continent that was originally unknown.

Columbus discovered the New World.

However, this continent was named after the person who confirmed that it was the New World: America.

Later, there were various criticisms about who was the first to discover America.

The conclusion that Columbus discovered the New World is beyond doubt.

This is because at that time, people in Europe and even the entire old continent of Asia and Africa did not know that there was this continent on the other side of the Atlantic.

As for who arrived in the Americas first, that is another question, because the Native Americans themselves migrated from Asia in ancient times.

It is extremely possible that the ancestors of China and Oceania sailed to the Americas, but none of these can change the fact that Columbus discovered the New World.

Columbus's voyage marked the beginning of the Age of Discovery.

The opening of new shipping routes changed the course of world history.

It shifted overseas trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast.

Since then, the West finally emerged from the darkness of the Middle Ages and began to rise in the world with an unstoppable trend. In the following centuries, it achieved maritime hegemony.

A brand new industrial civilization has become the mainstream of world economic development.