Columbus in the Age of Discovery, for wealth, honor and ideals, did his best and struggled, fully demonstrating the high-spirited spirit of that era.
In his voyage career, there are three "lucky" and three "regrets".
Sanxing:
1.Win the Queen's support.
Portugal's discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, which was at the forefront of ocean voyages, greatly stimulated the desire of Western countries to conquer the seas. But only by sailing westward could it be avoided clash with Portugal, and if the earth was round, this option would be feasible.
Columbus, in this way, peddled his claims to the monarchs of various countries.
It's a pity that everyone thinks he is a fool's dream, and no one pays attention to it. The monarchs of Portugal, including the pioneer of navigation, scoffed at him.
Eventually, Queen Elizabeth of Spain was moved and summoned him back to sign a contract to support him in his actions. Only then did Columbus embark on his own unique voyage.
Isabella is worthy of Columbus! Under the cognitive level of that era, this wise woman used the power in her hands to support a hot-blooded young man and help him fly his dreams! With this Bole, it is really the grace of Columbus's cultivation!
2.On the way, "desperate to survive".
As Columbus sailed west, he encountered a rebellion in the crew that had sprung up out of fear. He persuaded everyone with a lot of words, and at the same time made a decision in public:
Give me five more days! After five days of unsuccessful work, he immediately returned home.
As a result, providence helps! Really saw the land on the last day! The fleet landed on the islands of Central America.
On their way back, they were confronted with a terrible storm at sea. In the midst of the stormy seas, Columbus threw his suicide note and the record of his discovery of America into the ocean in a drifting barrel, hoping that after the ship was destroyed and people died, there would still be wisdom to pass on.
Perhaps it was "hard work", the sea god did not want to "accept" him, and in the end, the man and the ship survived.
3."Crooked beating" achieves a good reputation.
The goal of Columbus's voyage was originally Asia, but unexpectedly, the "New World" appeared in the sky, and he arrived in the Americas crookedly, becoming the "discoverer" that history will always remember!
The discovery of the Americas and the integration of the isolated Americas into the world family have objectively led to the development of the Americas and pushed the process of globalization into a new stage of development. From this point of view, the significance of the discovery of the Americas, beyond the exploration of the west coast of Africa and the east of Asia, has an earth-shattering world significance!
Although it became clear that Columbus did not arrive in "India", Columbus did not immediately bring great wealth to Spain, as he had promised.
But it turned out that it was Columbus who discovered the New World and made his "host" Spain the leading empire of the 16th century! In the long run, Columbus contributed a lot to Spain! Spain had no reason to complain about Columbus anymore.
1.Failed the queen who supported him.
As mentioned earlier, Queen Isabella originally expected Columbus to go to Asia to find **, but Columbus arrived in the "West Indies", but there was no ** and spices here.
Columbus made a total of four voyages to the west, and he searched and searched, but he did not find the treasure he wanted. Moreover, many people followed him to the Americas to make a fortune, only to be extremely disappointed.
The queen, who knew that her investment had gone down the drain, tore up the original agreement in disappointment, and Columbus's position as "governor" was revoked.
2.Missing out on the American continent.
Columbus called the place he arrived in India, and sat comfortably in the position of "viceroy" of the West Indies. But God played a joke on him, and while he was intoxicated with the joy of victory, Vasco da Gama of Portugal showed the world that he had arrived in real India.
No wonder those who were counting on going to the West Indies to make a fortune, after their dreams were shattered, scolded Columbus as "**."
However, Columbus believed to his death that he had arrived in Asia. It is also a trick of fate, although Columbus arrived in the Americas, he missed the American continent twice.
The Bahamas, where he had first arrived, was separated by only one strait from the Florida Peninsula on the North American continent, but Columbus stumbled south, staggering a larger territory! Otherwise, America would have been named after him.
On his third voyage to the West Indies, Columbus had already landed on the Paria Peninsula and could be said to have landed on the South American continent, but he thought it was just a small island, looked at it twice, and then turned around and sailed into the Caribbean Sea.
One turn to the south and the other to the north, the two major American continents, the two largest "fat meats" in the Americas, actually bypassed him so ghostly. What he "picked up" was actually just a "pearl" sprinkled between North and South America!
3.Kill an America on the way.
We all know that it was Christopher Columbus who first discovered the New World.
As a result, a geographer named Amerigo later came here to investigate, after which he announced that this was not India, but a new continent that was unknown to the public. Since then, people have called this continent America, or America for short!
It was obviously discovered by Columbus, but it was not called "Columbus Island"! I wonder if Columbus has any regrets about missing this "naming right" in addition to **?
The so-called struggle of life is to walk in all kinds of tangible and invisible rivers and oceans; Luck and regret will meet you unexpectedly in the course of life! The harvest of life is the comprehensive tempering of "luck" and "regret"!
If you keep struggling, there is hope!