Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma
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Columbus's Voyage Into the West
The expulsion of jews from spain was a crucial context and a motive for columbus's voyage into the west, ok? So this voyage sets out in a in 14 92. It sa sort of mixed, heterogeneous crew, spanish, portuguese. A significant fraction of them are jewish or converso. They voyaged for about two months westward on the atlantic. And they make a landing in an island that almost surely is in what's now the bahamas. After they land, they encounter local people who belong to the vetino group. This is one reason to suppose that a columbus, or his backers, or both, saw
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