Intro -- Christopher Columbus -- Key information -- Introduction -- Biography -- Childhood and education -- The long-awaited venture -- The expeditions -- Political, social and economic context -- The dawn of the Age of Discovery -- The fall of Constantinople and its consequences -- The end of the Reconquista and the emergence of Europe -- The genesis of a great adventure -- The expedition -- Preparations -- Reaching the East by the West -- The first colony -- Another world -- In search of a passage to India -- The expeditions' repercussions -- Global European hegemony -- The microbial shock and the ethnocide of the Native American population -- Geography, forever changed -- Summary -- Find out more.
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