| The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502 | In 1502, cleared of the most serious charges but stripped of his noble titles, the aging Columbus persuaded the Spanish crown to pay for one last trip across the Atlantic |
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| His group now included a large number of indigenous people the Europeans had enslaved | Columbus, a devout Catholic, was equally enthusiastic about this possibility |
| Stuart, Isabella of Castile: the first Renaissance queen, 2004, p | Prehistory of the Americas By Stuart J |
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| In fact, scholars argue that the idea is almost as old as the idea that the Earth is round | Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas |
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, p.
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