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Columbus discovers America

Columbus discovers America
500th Anniversary (Plate # 8086 A)


theworld.org/stories/2019-01-31/european-colonization-americas-killed-10-percent-world-population-and-caused
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 Dinesh
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On the night of 11/12 October 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, Either Columbus, on the Santa Maria, who claimed to have seen a light shining in the dark some hours before, on the lookout on the Pinta, who actually saw land by the light of the moon, was the first European since the Viking to see the New World. They thought that the land they were approaching was part of Asia -- indeed, throughout his lifetime (he died in 1506) Columbus refused to recognize that the Americas were a continent. The first cartographer to show the Americas as a vast land mass (not yet quite a continent) was Martin Waldsemuller in 1507 ~ Page 57

The INVENTION of SCIENCE
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However, signs and portents of approaching apocalyptic disasters were not seen as restricted to the sky. Nature itself in is accelerating decay and old age was providing similar signs of the impending End. Furthermore, the world, as it had been known to contemporaries, was changing rapidly and drastically, Due to the great voyages of discovery a new world was being added to the old. Here again old certainties were dismantled and replaced with uncertainty and anxiety.

Some discoveries, such as Christopher Columbus, clearly saw their undertakings in an apocalyptic light, helping to fulfil God’s plan for the world, making it possible to convert all the earth’s people to Christianity before the Second Coming. Columbus considered his own mission to discover a new route to Asia as part of a divine plan whereby a Spanish king would conquer Jerusalem which, together with his discoveries, would initiate a golden age of universal conversion to Christianity which would precede the return of Christ and the End. This eschatological dimension of the discoveries of new lands was echoed by many Protestants and our period, such as the Hamburg minister Philip Nicolai, who claimed that it had been prophesyed in the Bible that before the Second Coming many new lands would be found. ~ Page 79

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
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