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In the early modern age, the voyages of Columbus initiated European
exploration and colonization of the American continents, and are of great
significance in world history. Christopher Columbus was a navigator and an
admiral of Castile, a country that later founded the actual Spain. He made four
voyages to the Americas, with his first in 1492, which resulted in what is widely
referred to as the Discovery of America.
He did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage, in 1498, when he
reached South America, and the fourth voyage, when he reached Central
America.
Columbus' discovery subsequently led to the major European sea powers'
sending expeditions to the New World to build trade networks and to convert
the native peoples to Christianity. Pope Alexander VI divided the new lands
outside Europe between Spain and Portugal, in the Treaty of Tordesillas. This
division was never accepted by the rulers of England or France
 Christopher Colombus started his first voyage to asia the
east part of the world,to explore and discovering new
routes for spices. The 3 of August of 1492, colombus and his
crew departed from Castilian "Palos de la frontera
(Huelva)". Columbus went firts to the Canary Islands. He
stayed there for four weeks because of the need for repair
and refit. Columbus left the island of Gomera on the 6th of
September of 1492
 Colon and the three ships: the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria.
 Santa Maria de la Inmaculada Concepción was the largest of the three ships
used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage.
 Was one of three ships used by Comubus in his first voyage towards the Indies
in 1492. On Columbus' first expedition ,La Niña carried 24 men, captained by
Vicente Pinzon. They left Palos de la Frontera on August 3, 1492.
 Was the fastest of the three ships used Christopher Columbus in his first
voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. The New World was first sighted by
Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on October 12, 1492.
 He left the port of Cadiz, Spain, on the 25th of september
of 1493 aboard the Mariagalante, his flagship.After the
success of Columbus's first voyage, he had little trouble
convincing the Spanish Sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabela,
to follow up immediately with a second voyage. The second
voyage was a big colonization effort, with 17 ships and more
or less a thousand men and boys including sailors, soldiers,
colonists, priests, officials, gentlemen of the court, and
horses. Although Columbus kept a log of his second
voyage, only very small fragments survive. Before
Columbus left Spain on his second voyage, he had been
directed by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain friendly,
even loving, relations with the indigenous people, the
natives.
 Here we can see the route that Colunbus and all the
people that went in thah voyage follow:
 Columbus left the port of Sanlucar in southern Spain
on the 30th of May of 1498 with six ships, he went to
the New World for the third time. After stopping at the
islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, the fleet arrived at
Gomera in the Canary Islands on the 19th of June. At
this point, the fleet split into two groups: three ships
sailed directly for Hispaniola with supplies for the
colonists there; but the other three, commanded by
Columbus, were on a mission of exploration, trying to
find any lands south of the known islands in the Indies
 Columbus regularly used acts of violence to govern
Hispaniola. Columbus and his brothers were in jail for
six weeks before the busy King Ferdinand ordered
their release. Not long after, the king and queen called
Columbus' brothers to their presence at the Alhambra
palace in Granada. There, the royal couple heard the
brothers' petition; restored their freedom and their
wealth; and, after much persuasion, agreed to go on
Columbus' fourth voyage. From that point forward,
Nicolas de Ovando was designed to be the new
Governor of the Indias.
On the 11th of May of 1502, four old ships and more or less 140
men under Columbus's command sailed from the port of
Cadiz. At age fifty one, Columbus was old, sick, and he
wasn't welcome in his old home base of Hispaniola. But the
Admiral felt he had one more voyage left in him.
The purpose of the trip was to find a strait linking the
Indies (which Columbus still thought to be part of Asia,
and died thinking this) with the Indian Ocean. This strait
was known to exist, since Marco Polo had travelled through
it on his way back from China. In effect, Columbus was
looking for the Strait of Malacca in Central America.
 Columbus wrote a diary in his fourth voyage in wich he puts:
 For nine days I was as one lost, without hope of life. Eyes never
beheld the sea so angry, so high, so covered with foam. The wind
not only prevented our progress, but offered no opportunity to
run behind any headland for shelter; hence we were forced to
keep out in this bloody ocean, seething like a pot on a hot fire.
Never did the sky look more terrible; for one whole day and night
it blazed like a furnace, and the lightning broke with such
violence that each time I wondered if it had carried off my spars
and sails; the flashes came with such fury and frightfulness that
we all thought that the ship would be blasted. All this time the
water never ceased to fall from the sky; I do not say it rained, for
it was like another deluge. The men were so worn out that they
longed for death to end their dreadful suffering
 In this last voyage of Columbus, he follow this route:
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 . It was on November 7, 1504 when Christopher
Columbus set foot on Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Castile,
and officially finished his last and most memorable
voyage