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Christopher Columbus - School Essays

Christopher Columbus

was a Spanish-Italian Navigator, born between
August 25th and October 31st, 1451 in the seaport city of Genoa, Italy. His
father was a wool weaver and at the age of 14, began a
seafaring career. Between voyages, kept busy with the
making and selling of charts and maps. As a young student of natural
science as a seafarer, Columbus was fascinated by Marco Polo's travels to
Asia in 1275.
Columbus was sent to Asia to gather spices and silk. Columbus had
to make a choice to go to the Asia by sailing west instead of est, to get
the spices and the silk.
In this journey, Columbus had to take risks for finding Asia. Back
then, people thought that the world was flat and the only way you ...

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Asia. Columbus first landed on the island of Navidad,
and ended up coming back to this New World 3 more times. He never landed on
the main land of America, but he keeped on exploring the coasts of America,
looking for an opening to get to Asia. Unfortunatly, he never found it
because there was and is none.
Columbus' attitude to all of this was pretty positive. Columbus'
attitude was negative at some times, like when Queen Isabella thought that
his price was too high, and when he had to wait for years and years to go
to Asia, but he keeped his hopes up and believed that some day he'd be able
to go to Asia. ...

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Added: 7/13/2004 07:49:38 PM
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