Christopher Columbus
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was a Spanish-Italian Navigator, born between
August 25th and October 31st, 1451 in the seaport city of Genoa, Italy. His
father was a wool weaver and at the age of 14, began a
seafaring career. Between voyages, kept busy with the
making and selling of charts and maps. As a young student of natu ....
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.... willing
to give him one. Columbus had to wait.
Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, and thought it was Asia.
He and his men, unexpectedly, came across Natives and their culture, and
realized this was not Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad,
and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on
the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America,
looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it
because ....
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