Columbus was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the “New World”. The term “pre-Columbian” is usually used to refer to the peoples and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus and his European successors.
The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicization of the Latin Christopher’s Columbus. The original name in 15th century Genoese language was Christofis Colombo. The name is rendered in modern Italian as Christopher Colombo, in Portuguese as Colombo, in Catalan as Coloma, and in Spanish as. Columbus’s initial 1492 voyage came at a critical time of growing national imperialism and economic competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In this sociopolitical climate, Columbus’s far-fetched scheme won the attention of Isabella I of Castile. Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, he estimated that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the lucrative spice trade — heretofore commanded by the Arabs and Italians. Following his plotted course, he instead landed within the Bahamas Archipelago at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking North America for the East Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as “Indio’s”.
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- Al Ihsan School
- Dayton Islamic School, Inc
- Faith Islamic Academy
- International Academy of Cincinnati
- Islamic Academy of Youngstown (IAY)
- Islamic School of Greater Toledo
- Sunrise Academy
- Toledo Islamic Academy
- Dayton Islamic School
- Islamic Society Of Akron and Kent
- Islamic Center
- The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo
- Al Ihsan School
- Islamic Society Of Greater Dayton
- Masjid Omar of Columbus Ohio
- MAS Youth Center
- Islamic Society of Greater Columbus
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