President Roosevelt unashamedly credited Columbus and his men as “harbingers” of the great movement of people from the Old World to the New. In the midst of a world war, Roosevelt asked the ...

While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World ... lands. Columbus also continued to believe that he had found a route to Asia ...

Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, from the Spanish port of Palos with hopes of finding a route to the fabled riches ...