Christopher Columbus

The King and Queen of Spain: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

Christopher Columbus had two sons, Diego and Ferdinand, by Filipa Moniz Perestrelo and Beatriz Enriquez de Arana respectively. Diego died in 1526 and Ferdinand died in 1539.

From Spain to the New World, generally west-southwest.

Because they thought they could travel to Asia by sailing east.

Christopher Columbus named America after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian map maker who showed Columbus that the lands discovered by him (Christopher Columbus) were actually separate lands, not an extension of the Spice Islands and part of Asia as Columbus believed.

Christopher Columbus did not name America after Amerigo Vespucci. That was done by a German cartographer/mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller in 1507.

Waldseemüller was mislead by a book apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, which was based on a letter said to have been written by Vespucci, but which has proved to be a fake.

Waldseemüller later produced other maps without the name America on them, but in 1538 Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his maps, and this was accepted, even though Spain did not recognize the name for over 200 years, stating that Columbus should get the credit.

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He sailed across the world with his crew and didn't fall of the earth, he went forward and back.

Sorry about the start.

I have read the translation of his journal entries and for what he saw he wasn't far off. I think, though, that he is looking at the situation through the lens of having found India rather than finding a whole new area.

It is not known what Christopher Columbus's mother did for a living. She was the daughter of a wool weaver.

1492

He took dried beef, hard tack, and dried peas for the men to eat, 25 cats for the rats, a priest and the men who sailed the ship.

The diseases that the Europeans brought to the Caribbean were chicken pox, typhoid, bubonic plague, smallpox, measles, influenza and many more. Before, the native people didnâ??t know anything about these diseases thatâ??s why they did not have any immunity to these kinds of diseases.

He made four voyages, in which he mainly discovered and named the islands in the Caribbean area. His efforts at colonization largely failed: usually at each trip he found the colonists he had left behind earlier either massacred or in full revolt because the golden opportunities he had promised had never materialized.

Christopher Columbus' most famous ship was his flagship the Santa Maria. The other two ships used by Columbus were the La Niña and La Pinta.

Columbus called them Indians (incorrectly) because he thought he was in India. Calling a native American an Indian can be derogatory or perceived as an insult. Best to call them by their tribe name or by their given name.

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He didn't know how to work with the people that he was trying to steal form and he didn't know how to talk to them to try to treat them nice and that's why he was a poor administrator.

Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera.

Christopher Columbus did go to a special school for navagation, he got more and more in to it.

He thought that he was near land because the birds flying overhead and some carved wood floating on the water.

Columbus disagreed with most experts over how far it was from Europe to Asia going west. The experts were correct;

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christopher Columbus sailed 3 ships to the new world.

they were the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria

Columbus told the king and queen he would bring them back riches, and Spain at the time was competing with Portugal. In fact, Columbus also tried unsuccessfully to get support from Portugal, which was already finding sea routes to the East.