Columbus' Four Navigation Routes

1.1started its maiden voyage on August 3rd, 492. Columbus set out from Barros, Spain. 10 year 10 month 12 day, he arrived and named San Salvador Island in Bahamas. 65438+1arrived in Cuba Island on October 28th, which he mistakenly thought was the Asian continent. Then he went to Hispaniola Island (now Haiti Island) in the West Indies and made a survey on the north shore of the island.

2. The second voyage set sail on September 25th, 1493, from the port of Cadiz, Spain. During this voyage, his fleet arrived in Dominica, antigua island, the Virgin Islands of leeward islands and Puerto Rico.

The third voyage is May 30th 1498. From Seville, Spain. On July 3 1 day, the fleet arrived in Trinidad Island in the north of South America and Parrilla Bay in Venezuela. This is the first time that Europeans have discovered South America.

4. The fourth voyage set sail at 1502 May 1 1, starting from the port of Cadiz. After he arrived in Hispaniola, he crossed the sea between Cuba and Jamaica and sailed to the western Caribbean. Then he turned to the south and sailed about 1500 km along the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to find the passage between the two oceans. Columbus abandoned the ship and landed in Jamaica on June 1503.

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Historical significance

1, Columbus's first voyage and voyage across America are of great significance in the history of geographical development. Columbus and his party arrived in Cuba, Haiti and several small islands in the Indian Islands in the eastern and central America, thus opening the prelude to the discovery of the new continent.

2. Columbus's first voyage and his voyage across America are also of great significance in the history of navigation. The voyage is more than 220 days, with a round trip of more than 8,000 nautical miles and a one-way trip of more than 4,000 nautical miles. Without land, it took more than 30 days to cross the ocean.

Columbus also found geomagnetic deviation in his first voyage, and preliminarily measured the magnetic declination. Before that, China had discovered geomagnetic deviation. Columbus first discovered the phenomenon that the magnetic needle moved westward because the navigator's position changed into the western hemisphere, and made detailed observation and measurement records and preliminary practical explanations.

Columbus's first crossing America also played an important role in the history of colonialism. In the past 500 years in Europe, from ancient times to the present, the old mainlanders, who are one level higher than Gao Wenming, established settlements in the New World for the first time, and they began to have close contact with the primitive people in the New World in many aspects.

Columbus's first voyage to America is also of great significance in the history of agriculture and medicine. Columbus and his team first discovered important crops unique to America, such as tobacco, corn and potatoes. But it also spread syphilis from America to Europe.

6. Columbus's maiden voyage also has certain significance in the history of thought. Columbus confirmed the existence of the legendary "golden age" and "kind barbarian" in a "natural state", which had an impact on the early utopian socialism and the later Enlightenment.

7. The success of Columbus's first voyage stimulated western European countries and people to compete for voyage exploration, and there was a climax of voyage, exploration, discovery and colonization in western Europe.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Christopher Columbus (famous Italian navigator)