Ep 167: Columbus, Part 4 — The Final Voyages and the International Race to See What's Really Out There

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Harry and Rafe finish the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World.
Columbus struggles to keep control of the colony in the (West) Indies and also struggles to keep control of his reputation and name.
The New World is becoming bigger and bigger and looking less and less like The East with every voyage someone, be it Columbus or the Portuguese or the British or anyone, makes west from the Europe-Africa-Asia super continent.
In the end, Columbus dies a man trying to defend his name while the nations of world come to grips with the fact that there are things out there they never expected to find, namely two (2!) new continents and an ocean so big that it covers half the planet.
But Columbus lives on in a namesake country and in cities and towns and streets and companies and all sorts of other things all over the New World. A bold and daring risk based on bad data and funded by Spain completely changed the understanding of the world.
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