Презентация "Путешествия Колумба"

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Columbus made more voyages to the N ew World. He discovered some more islands in Central America. Spain was very much interested in this land, in this territory and had some Spanish settlements in South and Central America and in the South of North America too.

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The second great voyage of Christopher Columbus began in September in 1493. He had seventeen ship with him. On this voyages he reached Cuba, but he did not know it was an island. Columbus made four trips in all to the N ew World but he never landed on the mainland of North America.

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England became interested in the New World too. The first English settlements appeared in America at the beginning of the seventeenth century. On the 6 th September in 1620 a group of people left England for the New World. They sailed from the English city Plymouth, on board the ship the “Mayflower”. They wanted to start a new life and to have no problems with the church.

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After three months’ voyage these people landed in the North-east of America. There were 74 men and 28 women on the “Mayflower”. They set up a colony and called that part of the country “New England”.