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The day Christopher was born by his parents Susanna Fortanarossa and Domenico Colombo
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His first journeys as a teenager.
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He got a job as a sailor and one day his ship got attacked by Pirates and it sunk
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Christopher got married to a woman called Felipa Perestrella e Moniz. They lived together in Portugal.
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He did his first large voyages. He sailed between Portugal and Iceland.
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He wanted to come up with a new route from Europe to Asia, he asked for help from England and Portugal but they refused to help him.
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He was looking for money to help him find his new route so he decided to move to Spain.
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Christopher went and asked the king and queen of Spain for help, they accepted.
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Christopher gathers up a convoy, the Santa Maria, the Pinta’ and the Nina’. They set sail to go West.
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At first Christopher and his crew think that they have reached Asia, But they had actually made it to The West Indies, Which then led to America getting discovered.