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He borns the 31 October 1451, in Genoa, Italy.
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A contract that stabilises the conditions of Columbus' trip and the distribution of charges and goods.
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The Treaty agreed:
- Peace between the Kingdom of Portugal and the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and the end to hostilities after the War of Castilian Succession.
- Alfonso V resigned the throne of Castile and Isabel and Ferdinand renounced the throne of Portugal.
- Assigned the territories: Portugal was left with the territories that were in the south and Castile with all that was in the north.
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His journey was continued by Vasco da Gama a decade later.
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Columbus arrived in several Caribbean islands: San Salvador, Juana and La Española.
In La Española crashed his best ship, the "Santa Maria", and with his wood was built "Christmas". Columbus returned to Spain in the "La Niña" caravel. -
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On this trip, they reached the coasts of the Caribbean discovering several islands of the archipelago of the Lesser Antilles.
He Returned to La Española and very close founded his first city to which he named as La Isabela. -
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Divided the afresh discovered lands outside Europe among the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along with a meridian 370 leagues. This line of division was about midway between the Cape Verde islands and the islands entered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage.
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Was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
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On this trip, Columbus discovered the Trinidad Island and the mouth of the Orinoco River in Tierra de Gracia (current north of Venezuela).
Returned to La Española where he was taken prisoner by the complaints of the Spaniards who were unhappy with his command. He returned chained to Spain, where queen Elizabeth liberated him. -
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On this trip, Columbus discovered some islands in the Greater Antilles. These are the current countries of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; As well as some small islands like the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. -
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Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain; at 55 years of life, as a result of a cardiac delay caused by Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis).
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The Armada de Molucca was the name of the Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano in the first expedition to sail to the Spice Islands from Europe and the first world circumnavigation.
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