What is the significance of Columbus's discovery of the new continent?

Christopher Columbus's discovery of the new continent was the most important navigation activity for western European navigators to open up new routes in the 15th century. Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, was born in Genoa, and moved to Portugal in 1476. He once proposed to Portuguese King Wang to sail westward to explore the sea route to the East India and China, but it was not adopted. Immigrated to Spain in 1485. On August 3, 1492, on the orders of Spanish rulers Isabel and Ferdinand, he took three ships with 9 sailors, set sail from Barros Port, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, arrived in Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and other places, and then made three westward voyages (AD 1493, 1498 and 152) to Jamaica, Puerto Rico and other islands.

Christopher Columbus

At first, Columbus mistakenly thought that the place where he traveled on his western voyage was India, so he called the local residents "Indians" (later, the west designated October 2, the date when Columbus first arrived in the Bahamas, as Columbus Day for discovering America). From the end of 16th century to the beginning of 17th century, the Italian Amerigo Weiss Pucci visited the coast of South America and concluded that it was not Asia but the "New World". Later, in the name of Amerigo, the continent was called America. After the discovery of the new continent, the European population continued to migrate to America, which set off the third climax in the history of human migration.