Biography Of Christopher Columbus
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Columbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Coló
n) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the
Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
His ....
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.... married in 1479 to the daughter of
the governor of the island of Porto Santo. Diego Columbus, the only child
of this marriage, was born in 1480.
Based on information acquired during his travels, and by reading and
studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, and composed mostly of land.
On the basis of these faulty beliefs, he decided that Asia could be reached
quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to J ....
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