DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

  • COLÓN
    1492

    COLÓN

    Was a navigator from Genoa or maybe portuguese, that he belived that the Earth was round, so he could reach Asia by crossing the Atlantic Ocean. His project was rejected by Portugal, but accepted by the Catholic Monarchs.He left Palos with three boats and he arrived the 12th of October in 1492, in a new continent ,but he thougth that he arrived in Japan.He did three more expeditions and died in 1506.
  • 1531

    INÉS MUÑOZ

    She's Pizarro´s relative.She arrived in 1532 (Cajamarca),she worked like a teacher, and she brougth from Spain to Lima: olives,wool,wheat... and she carried from Lima to Spain : potatoes,tomatoes,corn,....,she dead at Lima in 1594.