Columbus

Paulina Cintron

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Genoese sea captain who, in 1492, approached Queen Isabella with an interesting plan, which was to try to find a new route to India by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. In August 1492, Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic towards what he thought would be India, but little did he know he'd find our present day America. Queen Isabella of Spain ordered that the port of Palos supply him with three ships the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. A total of about 90 crewmembers sailed aboard the three ships. In addition to the officers and sailors, the expedition included a translator, three physicians, a servant for each captain, a secretary, and an accountant There are a lot of people throughout history that have changed the world, but in my mind Christopher Columbus was one of the most important of those people. He was the first explorer to find the Americas and their inhabitants. If he hadn't accidentally stumbled upon our, now present day, America who knows how our lives would be right now. The chain of events leading up to present day could be drastically altered if, say, Franscisco Pizzaro had found the Americas. Finding two huge continents that no one except the inhabitants knew were there seems like a pretty good world changing event to me.

In 1492 Columbus set sail as an explorer for Spain and was at sea looking for a new route to India, that he thought he would find if he sailed west over the Atlantic Ocean, for a little over a month. Once he landed on the Bahamas he named the local inhabitants that were living there at the time, Indians because he thought that he was actually in India and not in a new land that no one in Europe knew about. So, there is one-way right there as to how Christopher Columbus changed the world. He gave the world a name for Indians, which mostly everybody in the entire world knows. So the simple name that he came up with then is now a worldwide know...