Italy, who crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492. The trip was funded by Queen Isabella of Spain after the Castilian queen managed to conquer Andalusia. He believes that the Earth is a small ball, and believes a ship can get to the Far East via the west route.
Columbus was not the first to arrive in America, which he found already occupied. He is also not the first Europeans reached the continent since it is now widely recognized that the Vikings of Northern Europe had visited North America in the 11th century and founded the colony of L'Anse aux Meadows for a brief period. There are estimates that an unknown sailor ever visit to America before Columbus and membekalkannya with sources for glory. There are also many theories about the expedition to America by various people throughout time.
Columbus thought that the island is still virgin, not inhabited at all. They berorintasi make the island as an extension of Spanish territory. But after the burst, Columbus was surprised to find the exact building that he had ever seen before when it landed in Africa. Imposing building is the mosque used by Islamic people to worship. Initially greeted with a friendly Columbus by the Indians, but after it comes out bad intentions on the island, Columbus got a lot of resistance from local residents. Some of the group's fleet of ships sunk by the Indians Columbus because they feel disturbed and threatened by the arrival of Columbus
The origins of Columbus
A scientist United States (U.S.) claimed to successfully reveal the origins of Christopher Columbus. For years, Italy, France, Portugal, Scotland bahka claimed that the inventor of the American continent was coming from their territory.
Since his death in 1506, the origins of Columbus lively debate. He is believed was born in Genoa, Italy. But for centuries, he also allegedly a descendant of Greek, Catalonia, Portugal, Corsica, France, and even Poland. One theory called Columbus as a Jew and probably came from Scotland.
Study by Georgetown University linguistics researcher, Estelle Irizarry, of language in unofficial letters show that Columbus came from the Kingdom of Aragon in northeastern Spain. Columbus is also known to speak Catalan.
Irizarry discovery is published in the book "The DNA of the Writings of Columbus". He explained the language used Kastilian Columbus in his letters is not the mother tongue of Columbus. Language structure and how Columbus coherent sentences that show he was from Aragon.
"He can not express themselves in any written language. His Spanish is very messy but efficient and poetic, "Irizarry said as quoted by page Daily Telegraph.
Three years ago, a study to trace the origin of Columbus by using the DNA chain to fail. A group of researchers took DNA samples from the tomb of Columbus in Seville and from bone brother and son.
They then compare the DNA with DNA samples from hundreds of people who lived in Europe with similar surnames such as Colom Columbus or Colombo. This failure is presumably because Columbus did not use his real name after sailed the Atlantic in 1492. Another theory explains that Columbus had worked on a pirate named Vincenzo Columbus. Columbus himself never answered questions about its origin. "Vine de tone (I come from nothing)," he said.
Syphilis Sign In Europe Through the Columbus Expedition?
Christopher Columbus made the trip proved a success indeed discovered a new continent now called America. But the trip was also alleged to have brought outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases are malignant to Europe. As the BBC reported on Wednesday (16 / 1), experts in Canada and the United Serkat concluded that the Columbus expedition to a new continent into its entrance into the European syphilis epidemic. For centuries, controversy over the origin of this defect is always emerging infectious - including allegations about whether the outbreak was brought from the new banua trip through Columbus and his crew.
Experts in the United States and Canada have tried to answer this controversy through anilisa and study the evolutionary history of syphilis bacterium using molecular genetics methods. They conclude, the theory of entry of this contagious plague to Europe by Columbus' journey is one of the most possible.
But once the findings of experts that was published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases is still invites criticism because research evidence is still considered limited. Another reason, there is a possibility of syphilis have been entered into Europe spontaneously, and possibly also related to bacteria that have spread before the Columbus expedition.
The case of the first syphilis epidemic in Europe itself appeared among the French troops in 1495 - or two years after Columbus returned from the expedition across the Atlantic. The fact is what led to speculation that the disease originated from the Americas. This type of syphilis - Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum - spread through sexual contact. The Columbus crew, made up largely of mercenaries, returned to their homes pascaekspedisi and spread this epidemic throughout Europe. However, there are other varieties of the bacterium T. pallidum can be transmitted by contact between skin or oral.
Kristin Harper of Emory University in Georgia and his team tested the DNA of 23 strains of the three subspecies of T. pallidum, including the types of sexually transmitted (venereal) and type of non-sexual (non-venereal). Through this effort, they can mengkonstrusi a family tree that shows that these bacteria change over time.
Of all strains tested, the type of syphilis bacteria are transmitted through sexual contact (venereal) were from which emerged recently and most closely related to strains from South America. "The results of this study support the Columbian Theory and mengindisikan that non-venereal subspecies of bacteria appear earlier in the Old World (Europe)," said the experts in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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