"Why was Columbus "Admiral of the Ocean Sea"?" Topic
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Inquisitor Thaken  | 03 Nov 2009 9:32 p.m. PST |
What did "Ocean Sea" mean to the Spanish? Was this the original name for the Atlantic Ocean? Just curious. Thanks. |
 enfant perdus | 03 Nov 2009 11:05 p.m. PST |
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| Inquisitor Thaken | 04 Nov 2009 6:58 a.m. PST |
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 zippyfusenet | 04 Nov 2009 8:12 a.m. PST |
The 'Ocean Sea' was the one big ocean that surrounded the land mass of the known world: Eurasia + Africa. North and South America (and Australia and Antarctica) were not yet known to Europeans, who had no concept of seperate Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
 John the OFM | 04 Nov 2009 8:47 a.m. PST |
It was a title, easy to give out, and with little practical meaning.
While Columbus thought it gave him extraordinary powers and authority, in reality no one else did. |
| Augustus | 04 Nov 2009 2:54 p.m. PST |
Columbus' problem was entertainment law was in its infancy – had there been the number of lawyers then that there are now, he might have been able to make the Admiral Ocean Sea's powers stick. |
| RockyRusso | 04 Nov 2009 3:02 p.m. PST |
Hi Actually, there were lots of italian lawyers, but it was the Castillians who were making these decisions. Rocky |
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