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Quotes About 1493

Columbus brought sugarcane to Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World, on his second voyage, in 1493.
~ Tom Reiss
it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Pope Alexander's most fateful decision was taken in 1493, when he made the all-important adjudication between Spain and Portugal over their recent territorial discoveries in Africa and
~ John Julius Norwich