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  • Christopher Columbus and The Age of Discovery

    During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands. The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery,” also known as “Age of Exploration.” Starting in about 1420, small Portuguese ships known as car...

  • Early Life and Nationality

    Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant, is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. When he was still a teenager, he got a job on a merchant ship. He remained at sea until 1476, when pirates attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank, but the young Columbus floated to shore on a scrap of woo...

  • The First Voyage

    At the end of the 15th century, it was nearly impossible to reach Asia from Europe by land. The route was long and arduous, and encounters with hostile armies were difficult to avoid. Portuguese explorers solved this problem by taking to the sea: They sailed south along the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. But Columbus had a dif...

  • Christopher Columbus' Ships: Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria

    On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in the East Indies, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the Bahamian islands, likely San Salvador. For months, Columbus sailed from island to island in what we now know as the Caribbean, loo...

  • Christopher Columbus's Later Voyages

    About six months later, in September 1493, Columbus returned to the Americas. He found the Hispaniola settlementdestroyed and left his brothers Bartolomeo and Diego Columbus behind to rebuild, along with part of his ships’ crew and hundreds of enslaved indigenous people. Then he headed west to continue his mostly fruitless search for goldand other ...

What did you know about Christopher Columbus?

Here are ten things that maybe you didn't already know about Christopher Columbus and his four legendary voyages. Christopher Columbus is an Anglicization of his real name, given to him in Genoa where he was born: Cristoforo Colombo.

How many voyages did Christopher Columbus make?

Between 1492 and 1504, he made a total of four voyages to the Caribbean and South America and has been credited – and blamed – for opening up the Americas to European colonization. Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now Italy.

What did Christopher Columbus fail to find?

Columbus has been credited for opening up the Americas to European colonization - as well as blamed for the destruction of the native peoples of the islands he explored. Ultimately, he failed to find that what he set out for: a new route to Asia and the riches it promised.

Who wrote the life of Christopher Columbus?

The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand. Translated by Keen, Benjamin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1978 . ISBN 978-0-313-20175-2.

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