... , a new theory outlining Columbus" purpose further links voyages of discovery to medieval Europe by suggesting that his voyages were drawn on the same apocalyptic drive to Christianize the globe into a golden age that the millennial Franciscan order had been supporting. This new expansion of Europe, therefore, was both driven by the extensions of the same goals and processes that drove Crusaders during ... ...

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