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Christopher Columbus - School Essays

Christopher Columbus

Justin Shin
10/8/12

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was born on October 13, 1451 at Genoa, Italy. His father was famous for weaving and political business, so Christopher took his job until the age of fourteen. This was when his life as a sea voyager began. During his whole life, Christopher went to four different voyages in search for gold silver, and spices. Christopher loved to sail and he went to lots of places. But one day he asked the king and queen of Portugal to gain their patronage for an expedition. This failed numerous times yet he kept on trying. Finally on August 3 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella gave Christopher the money to help him on the ...

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to be the "Indians" so Christopher believed that he completed his job. After he left, he continued on and found islands known as Cuba and Hispaniola. Christopher proudly came back after to Spain to share the good news. This was the last time Christopher could probably be proud of himself.

The next two voyages Christopher went to was very humiliating for him. People thought of him as a mismanagement leader because of his failures and defeats in the past two journeys. When Christopher died on May 20, 1506, he died as a very disappointed yet wealthy ...

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Added: 11/26/2012 08:19:50 PM
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