A Patriots History Of The United States
From Columbus's Great Discovery To The War On Terror
Chapter One
The City on the Hill, 1492-1707
The Age of European Discovery
God, Glory, and gold-not necessarily in that order-took post-Renaissance Europeans to parts of the
globe they had never before seen. The opportunity to gain materially while bringing the Gospel to non-Christians
offered powerful incentives to explorers from Portugal, Spain, England, and France to embark
on dangerous voyages of discovery in the 1400s. Certainly they were not the first to sail to the Western
Hemisphere: Norse sailors reached the coasts of Iceland in 874 and Greenland a century later, and legends
recorded Leif Erickson's establishment of a colony in Vinland, somewhere on the northern Canadian
coast. Whatever the fate of Vinland, its historical impact was minimal, and significant voyages of
discovery did not occur for more ... read full excerpt from A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror ebook
