... dispute started a war between Spain and Portugal that lasted for five years. However, in 1480 La Beltraneja eventually abandoned her claim to the throne and left for the monastery of Santa Clara of Coimbra. When this happened Isabella was unquestionably given the right of the throne of Castile. In this same year, Ferdinand succeeded to the throne of Aragon, and the unity ... a way to continue to convert the Jews and the Muslims. The sovereigns kept up the war even though they had several serious defeats. As a result of this, the city of Santa Fe was built, to put an end to the hopes of ...

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... dispute started a war between Spain and Portugal that lasted for five years. However, in 1480 La Beltraneja eventually abandoned her claim to the throne and left for the monastery of Santa Clara of Coimbra. When this happened Isabella was unquestionably given the right of the throne of Castile. In this same year, Ferdinand succeeded to the throne of Aragon, and the unity ... a way to continue to convert the Jews and the Muslims. The sovereigns kept up the war even though they had several serious defeats. As a result of this, the city of Santa Fe was built, to put an end to the hopes of ...

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... to finally make his dreams come true. Christopher Columbus was given three ships. The ships were the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The Nina and the Pinta were about 70 feet long and weighed about 60 tons each. The Santa Maria was about the same length, but weighed about 90 tons. About 90 men went on the journey and all of ... the East Indies. On November 21, 1492, one of his crewmembers sailed off with the Pinta. Columbus went in search of the Pinta and new islands. During his search, the Santa Maria hit a reef and was grounded on Christmas Day. What they could salvage was taken to ...

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... departed on his first voyage from the port of Palos near Huelva in southern Spain, on August 3, 1492, in command of three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The Nina, a lateen-rigged caravel, was captained by Martin Alonzo Pinzon. The Pinta, a square-rigged caravel was captained by Pinzon's brother, Vicente Yanez. The ... Santa Maria, a nao, was Columbus' flagship- (Irving 4). The nao was large and had a round hull compared to the lightly built caravels with narrow hulls. The Santa Maria was slow and unwieldy during the long ocean voyage. The three ships together carried 1...

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... Queen Isabella of Spain. After a few times of asking them they agreed. On August 3, 1492 the rulers of Spain gave Columbus three ships called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and paid for 90 crewmen and supplies. Christopher was completely excited and could not believe he was the captain of his own voyage to find spices, gold, and precious ... gold. By December 5, 1492 Columbus and his crewmen had searched many islands, but had not found any gold. As Columbus prepared on Christmas day to return back to Spain the Santa Maria ran into a coral reef and left holes on the bottom of ...

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... , Columbus would kill them. When Columbus sailed to Cuba, friendly Arawak Indians greeted him. The Arawak people even swam out to greet Columbus's ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Once some of the Arawaks reached the ships, they were let on and made prisoners. The rest of the Indians swam for their lives back to shore. Meeting these ... . Once Columbus arrived on Hispaniola, he was presented with gold from the Indian chief on the island. Then, Columbus decided to stay. He built a fort, out of part of the Santa Maria, and he called it Navidad. He left half of his crew at th...

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... the crews. Martin Alonso Pinzon captained the Pinta, a ship with square sails. His brother, Vincente captained the slightly smaller, Nina, a ship with triangle sails. Columbus captained the third vessel, the Santa Maria, and was slightly bigger than the other two ships. The fleet set out from Palos, Spain on August 3, 1492 and sailed to the Canary Island, a possession of Spain, off ... . On Octoer28, the fleet entered the Bay of Bariay off Cuba. Thinking they were near the Asia mainland, the captains explored harbor after harbor. The night of December 24, the Santa Maria crashed and spli...

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... his next expedition. On March 4, 1513, Ponce de Leon, about 200 men, and three ships took sail seeking for new lands. The three ships were named Santiago, San Cristobal, and Santa Maria de la Consolacion. They reached the island chain of the Bahamas. Then on April 2, 1513, they reached what they believed was another island. Ponce de Leon named this land ... ...

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... his sins. To his surprise, the monk gave him absolution. The next morning, three ships left for the trip to Asia. The lead ship of the three was named the Santa Maria. Once it became night time, one of the crewmen observed that Christopher was navigating the ships by using the stars. Christopher was happy to teach the crewman his secret ... ...

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... percent of whatever riches he found along with noble titles and the land he should fi In 1942 Columbus sailed from Spain in three ships called the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Soon after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, the Spanish realized that Christopher Columbus never made it to Asia and instead that he instead stumbled across the Americas. Christopher Columbus ... ...

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... are all overlooked. To start with, he took the rewards for discovering the Caribbean for himself, when it was indeed the Pinta that kept sailing to find land, not the Santa Maria. When he arrived, the Arawaks greeted him. Columbus responded by enslaving the natives, and demanding gold. He kidnapped 10 of them to bring back to Spain. On his second ... ...

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... lead to our founding as country. Christopher Columbus set sail for the East Indies in the year 1492. "Columbus outfitted three pitifully small ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and set forth from Spain."" (Lowen 39) This shows that Columbus did not set off on an easy voyage. It shows that we need to look at the hardships ... ...

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... Queen Isabella and they supplied him with the boats and supplies to go on his voyage. He was granted three ships. They were called the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and all together they held about 90 men. They left port on August 3, 1492 and arrived in the New World on October 12 at 2 A.M. He arrived much later then ... ...

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... with "being knighted, appointed Admiral of the Ocean Sea, made the viceroy of any new lands, and awarded ten percent of any new wealth. He took his three ships, the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta. After the voyage of 1492, the widely published reports made Columbus famous. Political support was no longer hard to come by, and he earned ... ...

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... based on ignorance. Columbus" first experience with Indians was with the Arawak tribes or the Bahamas Islands. He landed there on the historical 1492 voyage of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria with the notion that he could sail west to get east to Asia and the Indies. The King and Queen of Spain whom he promised gold financed his precarious ... ...

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... men and the only one who was willing to provide him with this was Queen Isabella of Spain. She provided Columbus with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He set sail in 1492 and after about two months they had reached land. Columbus believed he had reached India. He had no idea he had encountered another part ... ...

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... that Columbus would be trading, therefore, making more money by traveling the shorter route to India. Columbus set out with the three famous ships: the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria. From this point, we are taught that Columbus' ship, the Pinta, saw land on October 12th and that is the reason we have every October 12th off from school ... ...

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... the supplies needed to make a voyage that would take some time and go down in history forever. The squadron Columbus took on his first voyage consisted of three ships. The Santa Maria, completely decked and carried the flag of Admiral Columbus. The Nina and the pinta, both were undecked, with cabin and forecastles. Between all the ship they carried a total of ... ...

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... desire to find gold and conquest, were the key motivating factors behind Columbus voyage. So on august 3, 1492, Columbus fleet of three ships the Nia ±a, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail from Palos, a city on the Tinto River in southern Spain. Columbus and his crew spent almost a month in the Canary Islands, and then headed west, following the ... ...

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... America. In 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos in Spain with three ships. Two were Portuguese caravels, the Nina and the Pinta, small ships with triangular sails. The third, the Santa Maria, was a nao, a larger square-rigged ship. Ships were about 15 and 36 meters long and between them 90 men were carried.. He was also given titles and he was ... ...

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... ordered the harbor town of Palos to furnish two ships for the expedition as a penalty for offending them. These two ships were the Nina and the Pinta. A third ship, The Santa Maria (flagship), was chartered. Columbus commanded this ship and he selected two Palos captains to command the other ships. The crew was recruited from Palos. On August 3, 1492, the three ... ...

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