Betty B.
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He died in the belief that he had found unknown parts of Asia, that he had discovered a shorter and safer route for trade with the East, and that he had given new proof of the assertions made by astronomers that the Earth is round.
The men who immediately followed him, Vespucius and the Cabots, believed only that they had confirmed and extended his discovery.
Cabot first found the mainland of North America.
vespucius the mainland of south america but neither knew he had found a new continent each saw only coast-lines made landings it is true saw and conversed with natives and vespucius fought with natives but of the existence of a new world having continents comparable to europe asia or africa with an ocean on both sides of them
neither ever so much as dreamed.
Under the splendid inspiration of Prince Henry the Navigator, an inspiration that remained potent throughout Portugal long after his death, Bartholomew Diaz, five years before Columbus, made his voyage to America, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, actually sailed into the Indian Ocean, and was pressing on toward India when his crew, from exhaustion, refused to go farther, and he was forced to return home.
Vasco da Gama, ten years later, 1497, following the route of Diaz, actually reached India and thus demonstrated that, instead of going overland by caravan, India could be reached by sailing around two-thirds of Africa.
Spanish and Portuguese navigators, Columbus, da Gama, Diaz, alike sought a new and shorter route for trade with the Far East, one, moreover, that would not be molested by the advancing
and aggressive Turks.
Columbus believed, and so believed Spain and Portugal, that he had found a shorter route than the one Diaz and da Gama found.
Disputes arose between the rival powers as to titles and benefits from the discoveries, and it was because of these that Pope Alexander VI issued his famous bull, dividing between the two all lands discovered by the navigators, an act which in our time has become a curious anomaly.
since later proof of the existence of continents between the atlantic and pacific made the pope's decree virtually a partitioning of all america between two favored countries as sole beneficiaries dagama returned from india laden with eastern treasure columbus returned from america poorer than when he sailed from the port of palos columbus was believed to have found asia but he brought home after several voyages none of the wealth of asia
hence those fierce storms that beat about his head, leading to his imprisonment and to his death in Valladolid, a broken-hearted man.
The Spanish explorers who in the next century followed Columbus came to America in pursuit of silver and gold.
Rich stores had already been found by their countrymen in Mexico and the Peruvian Andes.
In meetings with Indians farther north, wearing ornaments of gold, the new explorers became convinced
that mineral wealth also existed in the lands now called the United States, and especially in the fabled seven cities of Cebola in the Southwest.
Out of this belief came the bold enterprises of Ponce de Leon, De Vaca, Coronado, and De Soto, while out of the Spanish successes in finding gold in America came the first known voyage into New York Harbor, that of Verrazano, the Italian and French service
who was seeking spanish vessels returning richly laden of the french and english explorers of later years cartier champlain marquette hudson drake who came to cape breton the st lawrence hudson and mississippi valleys the california coast the motives were different these came to fish for cod to explore the country to plant the banners of the sun king and queen bess over new territories
to convert the Indians to find a northwest passage, that problem of the navigators which baffled them all until 1854, 362 years after the landing of Columbus, when an English ship under Sir Robert McClure sailed from Bering Sea to Davis Strait and thus proved that America, north and south, was an island.
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