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Christopher Columbus
[Narrator] In the last video we discussed how the Portuguese began to really expand their exploration around Africa with the invention of the caravel a fast new ship that could sail into the wind and how Spain, newly united with Ferdinand and Isabella c.발음듣기
And it was into that moment that they received an interesting proposal from this man here Christopher Columbus.발음듣기
And one book that he read with great interest was the account of Marco Polo and his travels in China.발음듣기
And Columbus dreamt of getting to China and there accessing riches, silk and spices and maybe even converting people living in Asia to Christianity,.발음듣기
In fact we know that around 1000 CE the Vikings of Norway had colonized Greenland and had explored around what is today Canada.발음듣기
So you might be asking, "Okay, well if the Vikings" discovered America, why aren't we talking about "the Vikings in this video~?"발음듣기
And the short answer is the Viking settlement in the Americas did not last very long less than a generation.발음듣기
And it also didn't really get well known outside of Norway so it didn't have the worldwide impact on colonization that Columbus's voyage would have.발음듣기
The other myth about Columbus is that he was the lone visionary who knew that the world was round.발음듣기
In fact most learned people had known that the world was round since the time of the ancient Greeks.발음듣기
They estimated that it was about 25,000 miles in circumference, which is pretty close to the truth.발음듣기
And die long before you ever hit land cause they had no idea that the Americas were over here.발음듣기
Columbus however had done some different calculations and he thought that the circumference of the world was only about 16 to 18,000 miles.발음듣기
Now he was wrong, but he got very lucky because about 3,000 miles to the west of Europe he encountered landfall.발음듣기
So Columbus has this dream and he kind of shops it around the courts of Europe looking for royal patronage.발음듣기
And in August of 1492 he takes off makes a brief stop in the Canary Islands and then turns west into open waters.발음듣기
And then he ended up in the island that he called Hispaniola which is today the island of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.발음듣기
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