When Christopher Colombus sailed out to sea on his quest to what he thought it would be India, little did he know that he was about to change the coming centuries for ever.
He touched and changed the lives of millions around the world. Intellectuals, peasants, women, and minorities from afar, and last but not least, the indigenous people of the Americas.
Geopolitics: Would it be any different today had Colombus not ventured toward the west, but instead gone north or south? What would the world be like today?
2006-08-19 15:57:20 · 13 answers · asked by tiger 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
If he had gone any other route, there is a possibility that the Russians would have owned more than Alaska. If you study this fact, you will see it was mere chance that the USA exists at all.
2006-08-27 14:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by Calvin of China, PhD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think, that if he went north instead of the west, he would find it almost impossible to pass the pole, because of the cold weather conditions.
It could be that if he came back of such a journey, he would try the west afterwards, to try and sail along that part of the world. And the world would be relatively the same, as it is today!
I do not have any ideas on sailing south... Maybe it's an easier way than the north (in that time period), maybe not. But that's something we'll never know.
2006-08-23 20:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by pandora d.o. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, somebody else would have found the New World.
Maybe Columbus himself would have.
But don't forget that the main purpose of his trip was to prove that the world is round. He was following the earth's rotation (backwards), in order to find a new route to China. People had already reached China by going east.. What would be the point in going north or south?
BTW, the New World had already been visited by the Chinese,
the Phoenicians, the Vikings, and and Irishman named Brendan.
So anyhow, Columbus, a Portugese ( arguably also Jewish), sailing under the Spanish flag, became Italy's national hero.
Go figure!
2006-08-26 04:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by GreenHornet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
North
2006-08-25 16:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by greentyce 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Consider this...intellectuals knew for centuries that the World was not flat (The Vikings, the Chinese to mention just two). Columbus knew the World was round...what he missed to realize was that there were some continent in between.
The Columbus voyage is a History lesson that needs to be re-written.
2006-08-27 13:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by alrivera_1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a theory that if even the tiniest detail in history was changed, then everything would be changed from that moment forward. It that theory were so, we can only imagine how different our world would have been.
2006-08-25 08:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by Myrna B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be the same, the Western hemisphere would have been discovered by someone else within a decade. The technology and economic conditions were more important then the man.
2006-08-19 16:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by joshua_etu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say how the world would be like today, but I would bet the Native Americans would have a much better 'today'.
2006-08-23 11:02:22 · answer #8 · answered by pappyneil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
south
2006-08-25 08:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Indians would have not been $hit out of there land.
2006-08-26 16:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by florida boy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋