十五世纪,探险家、航海家克里斯托弗·哥伦布在西班牙君主的支持下先后四次出海远航,开辟了横渡大西洋到美洲的航路。他一心希望找到从欧洲通往亚洲的航道(显然他未能如愿),却在寻找这个航道的过程中意外踏足美洲大陆。尽管从真正意义上来说,他并没有“发现”新大陆(印弟安人早在4万年前就已经到达美洲大陆),但他的发现成为美洲大陆开发和殖民的新开端,是历史上一个重大的转折点。现在就让我们拿出地图,重温哥伦布的足迹吧! In the fifteenth century, adventurer and navigator Christopher Columbus sailed four times under the aegis of the Spanish monarchy, opening up a transatlantic route to the Americas. He was eager to find a fairway from Europe to Asia (obviously he couldn’t), but he accidentally set foot on the American continent during the search for the fairway. Although in the true sense, he did not “discover” the New World (Indigenous people had already reached the American continent 40,000 years ago), his discoveries became the beginning of the development and colonization of the American continent. It was history. A major turning point. Let us now take the map and relive Columbus’s footprints!