. Our colonial history from the discovery of America to the close of the revolution. 1609. Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River. 1620. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. 1623. New Amsterdam was settled by the Dutch. 1664. English conquest of New Amsterdam. CHAPTER I CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS § U GEOGRAPHICAL IDEAS AT THE TIME OF COLUMBUS 8. Ideas about the Shape of the Earth.—Four hundredyears ago nobody knew what the real shape of the earth had been different guesses at different times, but thatis all they were—just guesses. The earth looked flat, andso almost every onethought that it w
. Our colonial history from the discovery of America to the close of the revolution. 1609. Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River. 1620. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. 1623. New Amsterdam was settled by the Dutch. 1664. English conquest of New Amsterdam. CHAPTER I CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS § U GEOGRAPHICAL IDEAS AT THE TIME OF COLUMBUS 8. Ideas about the Shape of the Earth.—Four hundredyears ago nobody knew what the real shape of the earth had been different guesses at different times, but thatis all they were—just guesses. The earth looked flat, andso almost every onethought that it was flat. Hundreds of yearsbefore the fifteenth cen-tury, however, there werelearned men who be-lieved that the earth wasnot flat. They had writ-ten books in which theyhad tried to prove thatthe earth was theories of theseancient writers werenot believed by mostpeople, but there weresome geographers whothought that they might be true. They were anxious to find anew route to India and were willing to get help from any book,no ma\iter how long ago it had been Columbus. {From original portrait by Antonio Van Moor, 1542.) BISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION 9. Columbuss Interest in Geography.—One of the geographers of the time was the Italian, Christopher Columbus. Hehad been a poor boy, who loved to visit the wharves of hisnative city, Genoa, and listen to the stories told by the soon became a sailor himself and later a captain. His
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