The story of Columbus' discovery of the New World is very short.

Christopher Columbus's discovery of the new continent was the most important navigation activity of western European navigators in the15th century.

1On August 3rd, 492, Columbus was ordered by Spanish rulers Isabella and Ferdinand, and took three ships and 90 sailors with him. He set out from Barros Port, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, arrived in Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and other places, and then made three voyages to the west (A.D. 1493, A.D. 1498).

Columbus first mistakenly thought that the travel place of his western airline was India, so he called the local residents "Indians" (later, the west decided that Columbus first arrived in the Bahamas on the date of 65438+1October 20, which was Columbus Day when America was discovered). From the end of 16 to the beginning of 17, the Italian Amerigo Weiss Pucci visited the coast of South America and came to the conclusion that this is not Asia, but a "new continent". Later, in the name of Amerigo, this continent was called America. After the discovery of the New World, the European population continued to immigrate to America, which set off the third climax in the history of human immigration.

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Columbus was not actually the first person to discover America. Before that, Indians had already spread all over North and South America and became the masters of the American continent. Columbus was not the first European to reach America.

As early as10-14th century, many brave Scandinavians in Europe have been to America. For example, Ye Xiaokai Eriksson and his companions, such as Sophie and sauville, set out from Iceland around 1000 and arrived in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and New England, leaving behind their stories of sailing.

However, these voyages did not lead to frequent contact between America and other parts of the world, nor did they form new geographical concepts, so they could not be counted as "discoveries". Only Columbus's voyage broke the isolation of the western hemisphere.

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