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`The spirit of adventure of Europeans who opened ``the Great Sailing era`` in looking for ``new lands, new territory, new sea``, and especially of Spanish, Portuguese who wanted to find a new trading road not the Mediterranean for the purchase of the Pepper and the Perfume and ``Atlantis``, a dream island which, they thought, the religion of Christ was prospering, was connected into the landing on the Americas which became the big turning point in human history in October 12, 1492 by Christopher Columbus. This historic event, which is evaluated very high by virtue of the contribution in the advent of new economic system as result of the trading with the new continent and the activation of economy, helped accomplish much development in the Geographics and the Astronamics, the Shipbuilding and the Sailing Technics, the usage of Firing Guns in sea war and contributed to the birth of the modern form of enterprise and civil class(middle class) with the reasonable banking for raising of the capital. The European`s landing on the Americas influenced very much the social and econormic life of themselves to the extent that Adam Smith called this the most enormous and important event in human history. That is, the Sugar, Corn, Potato, Cocoa, Tobacco etc, from the new continent changed their eating habits and daily life. And, the inflow of huge amount of gold and silver contributed to the activation of world economy as a momentum to develop European Economy with the advent of the huge market. The Ministry of Communications issues this postage stamp, hoping that this historic event of500 years of European`s landing on the Americas should be contribute to the real development of human history, with praising the affirmative side for the Americas.`