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1 day ago · In the long shadow of Columbus, we sometimes lose sight of the ideas, laws and ordinary people who enabled colonial violence on a large scale. ... King Ferdinand and his councilors instructed ...
2 days ago · Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), [2] also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain ...
3 days ago · Columbus had brought back a handful of indigenous people, in chains, and presented them to Ferdinand and Isabella as a present. The horrified monarchs had ordered the chains taken off and the "visitors" free to go, although Isabella, especially, encouraged them to embrace Christianity.
3 days ago · Route taken by the expedition, with milestones marked. The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
3 days ago · This means that the city preserves a great historical heritage relating to the discoverer Christopher Columbus and the great explorers, such as Hernán Cortés, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Magallanes, Pizarro, Américo Vespucio and an extensive list of other adventurers and missionaries who departed for America from this city.
1 day ago · In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so. ... King Ferdinand and his councilors instructed ...
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3 days ago · Columbus, in his fourth and last voyage in 1502, sailed the coast of the Isthmus of Panama in search of the “narrow place between two seas” that Indigenous Americans had described to him. He imagined a hidden strait that, of course, he failed to find.
