1) According to Pigna, Colon is a visitor or an invader? Justify your answer 2) What did Colon think about the morphology (shape) of the planet?
3) How do you finance your Colon trip? When does it depart and from where? What role did the Queen of Spain play? Entrepreneurs?
4) Mention how Pigna describes the crew that accompanies him in his endeavor. Where did you think he was going? What did Colon think of the natives? Once Colon returns to Spain, how is his contract with the Spanish Crown modified? What mobile (interest) did the Europeans have on these lands?
5) Is the relationship between Colon and the Spanish Crown modified? How it ends? Is your last trip legal? How does Pigna describe the end of the Colon days? Is it rational?
6) What was yellow fever?

pls its to today

“[the city’s engineers excelled in areas] neglected by the greeks, such as the construction of roads and aqueducts, and of sewers that could wash the filth of the city into the tiber. they have built paved roads throughout the country, leveling ridges and filling up hollows, so as to make possible the movements of heavily loaded wagons. . and such is the quantity of water brought in by the aqueducts, that veritable rivers flow through the city and its sewers: almost every house has cisterns, waterpipes, and copious fountains.” —strabo, as quoted in empires ascendant: time frame 400 b.c.–a.d. 200 cisterns are tanks that hold water until it is needed; if a house has a cistern, it is likely to also have a. aqueducts. c. a swimming pool. b. a fish pond. d. sinks and faucets.