Patricia Seed Quotes (4 Quotes)

It is true that a lot of ordinary people thought the world was flat. But in Portugal where Columbus trained as a sailor the first thing that they did was a little demonstration to prove that the Earth was round. All of the scientists and intellectuals believed that the Earth was round.

In a sense, we remember him because he's a guy that made a mistake but had good luck, ... Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World.

But he happened to run into Caribbean islands full of gold. The gold had actually come to the surface and was in the rivers. It was very easily accessible.

There were all kinds of things that lived in the ocean. They were also out there for the first time in a area that hadn't been mapped before. They were understandably fearful.