But the journey almost didn’t happen. Columbus, who had started sailing as a teenager in the Republic of Genoa (now Italy), was intent on reaching Asia by sea to establish new trade routes for ...

During his second journey to the Caribbean, historian Edward T. Stone wrote in a 1975 essay for American Heritage, Columbus captured a large number of indigenous men, women, and children, sending ...

The expulsion of Jews from Spain took place in 1492, the same year as Columbus' famed first voyage. The tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral on June 25, 2016. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) ...