DISCOVERY - AMERICAN CONTINENT - SSECC.BLOGSPOT.COM

CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS Only five years ago, the Oceans were the limits of people's knowledge of the World in which they lived. They were afraid to sail out into the oceans because no one knew what might be waiting for them there; the shore was the edge of the World, many people believed. The Portuguese navigators who began to break through this darkness/ stayed within sight of the coasts as they discovered the shape of Africa. Then in 1492 Cristopher Colombus sailed directly across the Atlantic. He though he had reached India, but he had really discovered the American Continents. From that time on, other navigators explored the continents an islands in unknown seasuntil those lands had become familiar parts of the World. Routes of travel and commerce spread out across the oceans to bring the whole World together. The Oceans have come to seem small now that it only takes seven hours to cross the Atlantic in a commercial jet Plane. There were already people living in the World that Colombus discovered. They had probably passed over the Arctic bridge of land and ice from Asia many thousands of years before. Then after colombus Europeans began to colonize the New World every while they were still exploring it. In spite of difficulties that the early colonists encountered, The New world turned out to be a good home for them. In short time, it really became just another part of our one world. In our own time, we have begun to explore another of limits of humanity's knowledge. Beyond our world lies space. We have now made our first voyages into this new "ocean",which is so large that we can not really even measure it, as wecan the ocean that Colombus crossed. People have walked on the Moon, the nearest object an space has already begun as well instrument carried on these space voyages have sent back useful information about the nature of these planets. He use of space has already begun; communications and weather satelites now orbit the earth. Written by Hasbi Haris, S. Ag, SE. (SSECC.BLOGSPOT.COM)