Columbus may not have discovered the Americas ... shephereded in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this opened up economic and political opportunities ...

The discovery ... and viceroy. Columbus made four voyages to America, during which he explored an astonishingly large area of the Caribbean and a part of the northern coast of South America.

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about North America more ... this discovery demonstrates how information ...

The Columbus statue in Barcelona: His brutality towards the Amerindians, as they were known, during his journeys along the coastline of Central and South America became his true legacy.

South and Central America who met in Quito, Ecuador, in July 1990 to organize a cross-continental indigenous resistance to the Columbus Quincentennial.