October 27, 1492: When Columbus Reached Cuba, A Turning Point in Caribbean History - teleSUR English

October 27, 1492: When Columbus Reached Cuba, A Turning Point in Caribbean History - teleSUR English

As dusk fell on October 27, 1492, Christopher Columbus anchored his ships off the northern coast of Cuba, near what is now Holguín province. Sailing under the Castilian crown, the Genoese navigator believed he had reached the rich lands of Cipango—what medieval Europeans called Japan. Instead, he had encountered a thriving Indigenous world that would soon be irrevocably changed. Columbus’s expedition had departed from the Spanish port of Palos d…

Columbus and Islam: A Little Needed History – Dr. Rich SwierClick to open the search input fieldScroll to top

Given the time of Columbus’ voyage in 1492, being pretty close to the end of the period where Spain managed to take its own country back from invading, conquering and perhaps unprecedentedly cruel occupation by the Muslims in that same year, it always seemed to me that the real purpose of the voyage was not geometry, or for a better tasting sandwich, but likely to find a way to keep trade with India going by circumnavigating Muslim territory. Moh