Question

Who sailed from Spain and reached North America in 1492?

• A. John Cabot
• B. Vasco da Gama
• C. Ferdinand Magellan
• D. Christopher Columbus

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Christopher Columbus

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• From the sixteenth century onwards the Europeans began to migrate to North America.

• The major aim of the migration was to exploit the resources.

• By the eighteenth century, England had established thirteen colonies in the eastern coast of North America

• Christopher Columbus, a sailor of the Spanish Government, reached North America in 1492. He called the indigenous people as 'Indians'

• He thought that the place he reached was India. Later, they were known as the 'Red Indians'

• The earlier colonies in America were established by a group of people, who exiled to America from the religious persecution of the King of England in the seventeenth century on a ship called 'Mayflower', They were known as the 'Pilgrim Fathers'

• Policy implemented by the British merchants with the help of their motherland in the American colonies, is known as Mercantilism