Christopher Columbus

he want to prove that the world was round and not flat

I am not sure if it was his favourite but he did have another two ships called the Pinta and Santa maria so one of them could be his favourite ship

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

...He didn't land in the West Indies, he landed in South America. He thought it was the West Indies, but what he really found was a New World.

Asia. He had no idea that North America stood in his way. He found the Bahamas and got near North America when he landed on Cuba.

No, women weren't allowed on Columbus' voyages.

The three ships Christopher Colombus sailed on were Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Columbus was originally try to get to India, when he wound up in the Caribbean.

Columbus is credited with making the European discovery of America, of which Panama is a part. So in a sense he can be said to have discovered Panama. However, Columbus never traveled to the lands that are now part of Panama

Chris Columbus was born on September 10, 1958.

Not much. He was considered a failure. The biggest difference he made was he brought the New World and the Old World together for the first time. He was only a "tip of the iceburg" and for the Native Americans from 1492 on the world would never be the same.

yes he did get to Portugal.

The crew didn't kill him

The hawaiins killed him because they learnt that he was from another country

so they attacked him

None at all, he did however stay for approximately 5 years in Hispaniola (known today as The Dominican Republic and Haiti), on and off between voyages back to Europe from 1492 to 1500.

As the 2nd grade ditty goes, "In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue (e.g. the Atlantic Ocean)..." He discovered North America, but not really since the Vikings and Native Americans got here first.

Christopher Columbus sailed in order to find a new route to India but instead found the New World.

Christopher Columbus was originally looking for rare jewels and spices. He asked the Queen if she can send 3 boats to escort him onto his journey. The queen sent the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Nina. He accidentally sailed into America on his trip. That's why some people call the Native Americans 'Indians'. Nativemeans born in.

when he was about 15

The second voyage of Christopher Columbus was a vastly expanded one from his first voyage in 1492. He expanded his exploration of the Caribbean Sea and had enough men and ships to bring settlers and animals that were needed to gain a foothold in places such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Cuba among other islands in that sea.

Spain

Gold. All of them wanted the gold and riches they thought was there. Columbus was disappointed to find no gold.

Christopher Colombo of Genoa had always dreamed of finding a shorter route to China since he was a young lad enamored of the stories of Marco Polo's travels. In his apprenticeship sailing in the Meditteranean and the Atlantic he had heard stories circulating among sailors of large land masses but 900 leagues (2700 miles) to the west of the Atantic coast of Normandy and Brittany. He believed that it had to be China or at the very least the more mysterious Japan. The stories were indeed true, for the fisherman of these two areas of present day France had been landing on the shores of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, chasing the great schools of cod on Georges Bank. Archeological evidence discovered in the last 30 years by the Canadians has found traces of camps set up on coast of North America by Breton fisherman from the late 1300's on to facilitate the drying and perserving of their catch.

Armed with this information and crude maps drawn from these tales Colombo tried for 10 years to persuade Iberian rulers to outfit and finace an expedition. The Portugese laughed him out of the court because they already knew that his geography was wrong. The court of Portugaul, since the time of Henry the Navigator, knew that the circumference of the world was some 24,000 miles. They knew this because the Greeks from the second century BC had known it by the application of trigonometry using sun angles observed some distances apart. The Portuguese knew that Colombo was in error before he ever did, which was mistake number one.

Colombo's second mistake was common to all navigators of that time in that while one could reasonably judge how far north or south you were using sun angles on an Astrolabe, charting your position east or west was at best a guess until the invention of the chronometer (a really good watch that does not lose but a minute over several months) in the late 1700's. So while his desire to reach China caused Colombo to underestimate the distance to Asia his faulty longitudal navigation cause him to overestimate his travels.

So simply stated his two problems were one of Geography, which is unforgivable for scholars and royal navigators already had the correct information and secondly of navigation, of which all explorers suffered until the dawn of the 19th century.

he was at sea for his first voyage for about 2 years