Students of American history learn that European e...  ...urasia, from eastern China to western Spain. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean for the second time, in...  ...ed.The next day, the Europeans began to fall ill, Columbus included. Native Americans began to die. This was...

When Cristóbal Colón/ Christopher Columbus happened upon the New World, ripe for exploitatio...

When cooking with other people, you sometimes have...  ...we call the other plants "peppers"? It was due to Christopher Columbus trying to find a new route to Asia. He didn't, bu...  ...getting it from Asia was expensive and difficult. Columbus was so eager to find pepper that he carried peppe...  ...the allspic...

In 1494, two years after Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, the Italian painter Pin...  ...re inspired by the descriptions of tribesmen that Columbus brought back from his travels. Columbus 's voyages across the Atlantic were commissioned b...

Christopher...  ...the doubters decades ago, when he first heard the Columbus theory for syphilis. “I laughed...  ...lable evidence at the time actually supported the Columbus theory. “It was a para...

From George Washington and his cherry tree to Sir...  ...o history books and elementary schools everywhere. Columbus Discovered The World Was Round We’ve all he...  ...s Round We’ve all heard the story about how Christopher Columbus was the first person to realize the Earth was rou...  ...as far from...

Smithsonian has several articles today about Christopher Columbus , one of which explains some of his actions by loo...  ...gious authorities, and culture. For example, both Columbus and king and queen of Spain assumed they would ta...  ...obviously gave them rank over those who weren't. ...