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He was Born on 1451 october 3.his mother name was Susanna Fontanarossa,and his fathers name Domenico Colombo.
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Columbus first went to sea as a teenager, participating in several trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
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Columbus estimated the earth to be a sphere and the distance between the Canary Islands and Japan to be about 2,300 miles. In actuality, the distance was 12,200 statue miles
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christopher columbus making several Mediterranean voyages. Years later, while on a voyage in 1476, he was wounded in a battle at sea off the coast of Portugal. Though his Genoese ship was sunk, he swam to shore, and remained in Portugal for about ten years.
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Christopher Columbus's wife was named Filipa Moniz Perestrelo and her father's name was Bartolomeu Perestrelo and he became a Portuguese navigator in 1491
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The Spanish first arrived in Latin America in 1492, when Christopher Columbus, who was bankrolled by Queen Isabella of Spain to find a new route to Asia's spice islands, accidentally bumped into the Caribbean islands. Meanwhile, the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama founded the new sea route to Asia.
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In 1492, he sailed from Europe to America. He and his sailors crossed the Atlantic Ocean, not knowing where they would land. It was a voyage into the unknown. After Columbus, other Europeans began to explore and settle in America.
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Christopher columbus was the 1st one to make contact with the americans when he set foot in the Bahamian Islands. He then traveled to Cuba,
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Columbus first went to sea as a teenager, participating in several trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.August 3, 1492
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Sadly he died on:May 20, 1506 from congestive heart failure
