Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Genoa Republic, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarch of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the America Continent, a once said to be the "New World" on 1492.In history, Christopher Columbus often depicted to be an explorer who set out by the Empire of Spain to look for a new lands. It was not entirely true. Columbus set out to west is actually to find a new trade route to prosper with. He was to prove that the earth is round, contradict to belief of what was to be flat. He actually trying to find a new trade route to east. But, accidentally, he pump up to a new continent to be called America as we known today. And ever since, for the 500 years and so, the world change dramatically. America had since growth to become the strongest nation after war world 2 and still today.
The story behind the great explorer, lie a great lesson about how world economy will only can change and affect by new discovery in venture and adventure. In every effort on pursuing a new innovation, often it might not be turn out to be as planned, but during the processes of making the changes, incidentally, human able to discover new way, new light, new answers beyond what they originally perceived. Economy cannot have any significant breakthrough, rely only to existing resources and achievements. A short term frenzy of stock market surge, are nothing more than a merely speculation and following the herd, such a the tulip mania in dutch during 1637. During Columbus time, Empire Spain, the European continent hold their belief of having being at the peak plateau of their empire colonization. They believe they had conquered the world, not only until, a new land is discovered; from then, new evolution started - the industrialization age begin. Breakthrough can only come with endowment of Discovery and Adventures!
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