10 sentences with 'voyage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word voyage and other words derived from it.
• « This voyage was very risky, but if a Roman merchant could make it and return to Rome with a cargo hold full of silk, he would earn a hundred times his investment in profit. »
• « Queen Isabella tended to rule with more boldness and vision than Ferdinand, personally leading Castilian troops during the last years of the Reconquista, sponsoring Columbus' voyage and presiding over the larger and wealthier of the two great Spanish kingdoms. »
• « The voyage was thought to be feasible both because all educated people already accepted that the world was round (common knowledge since the days of ancient Greece) and because the circumference of the globe was not really clear to them: it was simply not known how long it would take to sail west to reach the Far East. »
• « The Columbian exchange, and the Great Death that was part of it, began with Columbus' initial voyage. »
• « This led to the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), who commanded a small fleet of five ships financed by the Spanish crown and tried to find a western route to Asia in 1519. »
• « Although Portugal had enjoyed a (relatively brief) period of ascendancy beginning with the remarkable voyage of Vasco Da Gama in the 15th century, it could not compete with the better-funded and better-equipped forces of the Netherlands and Britain, so most Portuguese colonies and trading posts were eventually lost to their rivals. »
• « The major changes in world history during the early modern period have to do with the continuous contact between different regions of the globe that began with the (literally) misguided voyage of Columbus in 1492. »
• « According to Father Bartolomé de las Casas, everything on that voyage was calculated to the minute and to the millimetre. »
• « Everything was discovered and Columbus would have obtained meticulous maps that he used, secretly, on the voyage. »
• « Friar R. Pané, a member of Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World, was perplexed as he wrote his manuscript. The natives - of whom he knew a few Central Americans - consumed between 80 and 100 hallucinogenic plants. European witches used barely a dozen - belladonna (Atropa belladonna), henbane (Hyoscyamus), mandrake (generic name) - for their concoctions. »