Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas

Assembled from 29 blocks · 1 evidence · 24 related

1. Story
2. After a five-week trade-wind passage from the Canaries, Columbus's three ships raised an island in the Bahamas that its inhabitants called Guanahaní. Which modern island this was has never been settled — San Salvador (Watlings Island) and Samana Cay are the leading candidates — and the surviving evidence is an abstract of the journal made by Bartolomé de las Casas rather than the original. The date is Julian, as recorded. What began that day was not a discovery of a route to Asia, which is what Columbus believed he had achieved, but sustained biological contact between hemispheres separated for millennia.
3. Knowledge
4. The Atlantic wind and current system
5. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
6. Christopher Columbus
7. Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
8. Connections
9. Christopher Columbus
10. Christopher Columbus
11. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
12. The Atlantic wind and current system
13. Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
14. Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
15. The Atlantic wind and current system
16. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
17. Seville
18. Casa de Contratación (House of Trade), Seville
19. The Columbian Exchange
20. Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
21. The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the ocean
22. The Casa de Contratación is established at Seville
23. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
24. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
25. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
26. Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
27. Urdaneta finds the return route across the Pacific
28. Evidence
29. Establishes the biological framing of post-1492 contact — crops, livestock and pathogens moving between hemispheres — used throughout this pack. V55 verification basis: this session had no outbound network access (WebFetch blocked by egress policy, WebSearch budget exhausted), so the book was not consulted; the citation is given from the author's knowledge and the work is a standard, widely held title that a curator can verify in any research library catalogue.