Who was Christopher Columbus?
Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Christopher Columbus started crusing whilst he changed into simply 14 years old. He had examine that the international become spherical. While maximum explorers were going east at the longer and extra dangerous direction determined via way of means of Diaz, he determined to go west and are available all of the manner spherical to the Far East in order that he may want to locate new exchange routes to Asia. After petitioning for price range for ten years, Columbus changed into given a supply through King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. The thankful Columbus promised to deliver back gold, spices and silk from the Far East and to unfold Christianity. In return, he requested to be made a governor of all of the lands that he observed. On his first voyage he found an island withinside the Bahamas and Cuba. Between 1493 and 1502, Columbus made 3 extra voyages, hoping to peer extra of what he idea turned into Asia. During those journeys he came upon greater Caribbean islands including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. He additionally found Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in Central America and Venezuela in South America. Until he died, Columbus idea he had reached India, while in fact he had found America!
