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-Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy.
-His father was a wool weaver and worked at a cheese stand.
- He had 3 brothers and 1 sister
-Columbus is important to the colonization of the Americas
-It took him Columbus to 10 years to find a ruler who would fund his trip to The Indies
-He was looking for a quicker and safer passage to the Indies
-Columbus's voyages enabled the exchange of plants,animals,cultures,ideas and disease
-The Natives were nice and willing to trade but then Columbus turned them into slaves
- Columbus spent 2 years talking   with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella about his voyage to the Indies
-Columbus set out from Spain to prove that it was possible to sail around the world
- Columbus might have gotten a disease 14 years before his death
-Columbus got arrested for mistreating the Spanish culture
-Columbus never set foot on North American coasts
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-One way Christoper Columbus impacted the New World is that he led many other European explorers to the New World. This made 90% of the population In North America die out.
-Columbus also enslaved many native people. Columbus got rested for killing people without trial.
-Columbus made 4 trips from Spain to around Cuba. Columbus never actually found North/South America.
-  Columbus was trying to find a new path to India, and he got rejected by many countries until Spain's king and queen funded his trips.
-  Columbus used to be governor, but since he got arrested, he was stripped of his title as governor.

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- Christoper Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451
- He spent his early life traveling around Europe
- He worked for trading companies
- Columbus has always had a passion for trading and exploring
- He had a job, which couldn't provide him with enough money to be able to set on a journey
- He came to King Ferdinand || and Queen Isabella for money, to fund for his trip, and promised to bring back spices, gold, and silk
- Columbus was trying to find a quicker and safer route to the Indies - to trade for spices
- Columbus' first voyage began on August 3, 1492 with a fleet of three ships, he made three more trips to the New World, and never got along very well with the people living there
- On the columbian exchange, they traded plants, animals, cultures, ideas, and diseases
- Leaf Erikson, The Viking discovered the New World before Columbus had
- Columbus thought that his people thought that the Earth was flat, and wanted to prove that the Earth was round
- In the New World, he is able to keep 10% of the riches
- Christopher Columbus had inspired many other explorers, and was one of the first explorers

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Columbus was born in Genoa Italy. His father was a weaver and owned a cheese stand. From an early age Columbus loved to explore. He traveled many places selling cheese. He loved exploring new places and learning new cultures and languages. The  fact that he loved to explore led to him becoming an explorer. Christopher Columbus never really landed in America's mainland. He hit the Bahama's. Columbus was very poor. He long desired gold and riches. Columbus asked many Queens and Kings for permission. Finally King Ferdinand and Isabella funded his trip. Columbus believed that if he sailed the entire way around the world he would reach the Indies.  However there was a continent in the way. When Columbus reached the Indies he searched for gold. When his men could only find a little bit of it he enslaved the native people to help him dig. He brought some of the natives back to Europe and gave them to Ferdinand and Isabella as slaves. Unlike the myths many people already knew that the earth was round. Columbus's trip only proved that theory. After his first trip Columbus took 3 other trips to the Bahama's. He died on May 20th 1506 still thinking he had reached the Indies. Columbus however inspired many other explorers to come to the new world. He is also credited with being the one to colonize the Americas. However Leif Erickson, a Viking  discovered America first. Christopher Columbus discovered Hispaniola or Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Saint Martin. Hispaniola means "The most beautiful island In the world"  He brought back "Indian" slaves from Hispaniola

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1. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 Genoa, Italy.
2. In 1492 Columbus wanted to sail to Asia but landed in the Bahamas.
3. Columbus enslaved a native group called the Taino.
4. Columbus believed the world was round.
5. Christopher Columbus was not the first person to set foot in the Americas.
6. Columbus's early life was hard  and difficult, and his family was poor.
7. Columbus never kept his promise to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus only gave them very little of his profits.
8. Before Columbus's trip was funded by Kind Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Columbus was rejected multiple times by other  leaders.
9. In 1499 Columbus's history of mistreating natives was caught on to multiple Spanish colonists of Hispaniola and Columbus was immediately arrested and taken back to Spain.
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-Columbus was born in
Genoa, Italy in 1451
-He traveled around Europe when he was young
- He was trying to find a safer and quicker way to the west indies to trade for spices
- After years of searching for royalty to give him money for his expeditions, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain funded him for his trip
-  The Viking Leif Erikson found America first, but Columbus was the first to colonize it
- He influenced other explorers later on like Hernando Cortes
- He thought he landed in India
- He spread diseases to the new world
- He never reached north america or Asia, just the islands around north america
- His three ships were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa maria
- He was arrested by the Spanish government, even though he was once an admiral
- He treated the natives of the island he landed on very badly
- He worked at his father's cheese stand as a child
- He wanted fame and fortune, so did the King and Queen who funded him
- The King and Queen also wanted to spread Catholicism to many different lands

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- Columbus went to the New world because he wanted to find a safer route to India. He believed that by sailing west he could go across the world and land in India to trade spices.
- Columbus got King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to fund his trip in exchange for getting them gold.
-He had three ships named the Nina, the pinta, and the Santa maria.
-To his death Columbus thought he had landed in India when he actually landed in Hispaniola
- Christopher Columbus never actually reached America.
- We honor Christopher Columbus every year to celebrate the man whe named the natives "Inidans" Because he thought he landed in India. People today still make the mistake of calling Native people everywhere "Indians"
-Columbus returned to Spain a hero.

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He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. His father is a wool weaver and owns a cheese stand. Columbus traveled all around Europe. He connected a route from Europe to the western world and motivated other explorers to come over to the new world. Columbus day didn't become a federal holiday until 1937. Many people  still believe he discovered america. He never even set foot in North america. Columbus made a total of four trips. Columbus landed on different Caribbean islands are now the Bahamas. Some tribes were completely wiped out because of diseases. He never really made much money for the royals on his voyage. However people didn't know that the pacific ocean existed.

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-Columbus was not the first person to sail to the Americas, the viking Leif Erickson was, but he was the one who inspired other explore to do the same.
-He populated the Americas with Spanish colonists
-Columbus brought over many new things from the new world to the old world such as food, riches and slaves
-He brought diseases and infections to the native slaves and the new world
-He never set foot on American shores
-Peoples views on Columbus are very different. Some people think he is a hero for discovering America and others think he is a villain for enslaving and killing natives.
-When Columbus was governor he mistreated his people and was arrested by the Spanish government.
-Columbus found it hard to find someone to fund his trip to what was supposed to be Asia because they thought that he was crazy for thinking that he could sail around the world and that he would run out of supplies.
-He built the the bridge from the old world to the new world
-He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451
-He started exploring when he was very young
-His father was a wool weaver and owned a cheese stand which Columbus worked at
-It was not Columbus's goal to reach new land. He was attempting to find a quicker and safer path to the Indies so he could trade for spices