A Biography of Christopher Columbus (1586 words, 3 pages)
Columbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristbal Coln) (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 father was a weaver, and it is ...
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