Perhaps the greatest unintended consequence of the past millennium was Columbus’s accidental encounter with the Americas in 1492. The Genovese explorer was attempting to do what Vasco da Gama would achieve six years later: discover the sea route to Asia. The Portuguese explorer, rather than travelling west across the Atlantic, travelled south and then east and realised Columbus’s dream by establishing the nautical connection between Europe and the fabled Indies.
上一个千年最大的意料之外的后果，或许就是1492年哥伦布(Columbus)误打误撞发现美洲大陆。这位热那亚探险家原本试图探索一条通往亚洲的海上通道——这条通道直到6年后才由葡萄牙探险家瓦斯科•达伽马(Vasco da Gama)发现。达伽马没有向西穿过大西洋，而是向南航行，随后折向东，开辟了欧洲通往传说中的东印度(Indies)的海上通道，从而实现了哥伦布的梦想。
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