; Pino, Mario; Collins, Michael B | The route was long and arduous, and encounters with hostile armies were difficult to avoid |
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Meanwhile, the native Taino population, forced to search for gold and to work on plantations, was decimated within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were left on their island | That is, it dates back to early Rome |
Columbus and modern historians, Praeger, New York, Westport, London 1991; Zinn, Howard 1980.
29He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did | ; Lightfoot, Kent; McManamon, Francis; Milner, George 2009 |
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In January 1493, leaving several dozen men behind in a makeshift settlement on Hispaniola present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic , he left for Spain | Old World wheat became an American food staple |
Sellier,; Remote Kingdoms by Tertius Chandler; The Key by John Philip Cohane; Gods of the Cataclysm: A Revolutionary Investigation of Man and his Gods before and after the Great Cataclysm by Hugh Fox".
19This time, Columbus made it all the way to Panama—just miles from the Pacific Ocean—where he had to abandon two of his four ships after damage from storms and hostile natives | He argued incorrectly that the circumference of the Earth was much smaller than his contemporaries believed it was; accordingly, he believed that the journey by boat from Europe to Asia should be not only possible, but comparatively easy via an as-yet undiscovered |
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Columbus, a devout Catholic, was equally enthusiastic about this possibility | The Columbian Exchange transferred people, animals, food and disease across cultures |
Xu, Origin of the Olmec civilization.
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