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Discovery of America
In the fifteenth century, when the Catholic queen Isabel and King Fernando reigned in
Spain, Christopher Columbus, a courageous marine adventurer, whose roots are believed
to be Italian, got economic help from Queen Isabel to undertake a trip by sea around the
earth. At the time, everyone believed that the Earth was square and flat, except
Columbus, who believed it was round, and with this trip he intended to prove it. For that,
he wanted to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the Indies, making an almost complete
loop around the world.
On August 3, 1492, he left with three ships and ninety men from the Port of Palos, in
Spain, into the unknown. By the way, the three boats were called La Niña, La Pinta and la
Santa Maria. First they went to the Canary Islands, where they filled their ships with
supplies, that is, food and water. And from there they continued on their
adventure. They spent days and days, weeks and weeks sailing without
seeing land and after almost a month of sailing, with a desperate and
tired crew that had already tried mutiny on more than one occasion, a
sailor named Rodrigo de Triana shouted: Earth in sight !!!!! and from
that moment, the world was changed.
They had arrived at Guanahaní Island, later name San Salvador which was inhabited by
peaceful Indians. After returning to Spain, Christopher Columbus organized three more
trips to America where he discovered other unknown lands such as Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, Honduras, Panama ... and where he led an exchange of products and animals.
From America, he took unknown foods such as potato, tomato and chocolate to Europe
and from Europe to America he took animals that did not exist there, like hens and horses.