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306: Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
Christopher Columbus and the New World
Christopher Columbus is the sort of 15th century equivalent of somebody who spent an enormous amount of time in his bedroom reading strange forums on the internet. He's picking up everything he can from kind of in presumably sailors, taverns and on ships. And he's fascinated by this idea of Asia, which we'll come to in a second. We always think of this as a Spanish story, or indeed a peculiarly individual story for two reasons. It's very important to Columbus, as part of his insecurity, that he's this kind of lonely man of destiny,. you know, operating in the face of a world that doesn't agree with him and doubts his theories.
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