Importance of the Discovery of America

There are events that completely change the way we see the world around us, being considered as Social Revolutions and they do not occur from one moment to the next, but are the result of an Evolutionary Process of a societyof the economy, of the policy or the ideas of a Revolutionary Thinker, although this event that changed the history of humanity arose from a navigator.

The phrase Discovery of America is often used then for the Spanish expedition led by Christopher Columbus, the Genoese navigator (although this origin has not yet been confirmed). who promoted this maritime task with the support of the Catholic Monarchs of the Spanish crown, departing from Puerto de Palos and arriving at an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492.

Although there are previously maritime charts that refer to this site under the name of West Indies, the truth is that its discovery is attributed to Columbus because he was the first to establish a Safe Route to this new continent, generating a Cultural and Economic Exchange with a new land full of resources for discover.

This exchange led to the meeting of two societies that remained isolated from each other for the moment, with the assumption that they had no contact with other lands, and generating later Expeditions and Colonizations generated by immigrants from the old continent, forming the populations that preceded the great American Nations that today day they are erected

After the Discovery of America, a historical and progressive process took place that lasted several hundred years and that led to the Wars of Conquest, wiping out entire populations of First Nations, relegating them to slavery, and leaving a great legacy Architectural and Cultural that today is marked by mysteries and is the object of study by many sciences and disciplines.