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Урокнатему “English Speaking Countries”
“The Discovery of America”
In our days everybody knows what the word “America” means. First of all it is the name of the country – the United States of America – or just America. And then America is the name of the two continents – North and South America.
America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. We don’t know much about the man. He was born in Italy but lived in Spain for a long time. He was a seaman and made many sea voyages. In 1492 the King and the Queen of Spain gave him money to go to India.
Most people in Columbus’s days thought that the earth was flat and they didn’t believe that beyond the Atlantic Ocean lay India. Christopher decided to sail west as he was sure that our planet was round. And after sailing 4000 miles, he reached some land. Columbus thought that it must be India but it wasn’t. It was a new land - a new continent. It was America – Central America. Columbus named the land San Salvador. People began to speak about the land as “The new World”.
European people came to the New World for many reasons. Some hoped to find gold and silver. Priests and missionaries came to bring the Christian religion to the Indians. Among those who came for freedom was a small group of English people called Pilgrims. They wanted to start a new life and to have no religious problems they had in England.
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