Christopher Columbus

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;

this question is incorrect..

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.

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That is true in some cases...He dosent go up to grass, collect it and say "What is this majestic type of object?!" so yeah .-.

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Columbus asked John II of Portugal to pay for an expedition across the Atlantic.

Two. one at birth, and the second just before her marriage

A development did not lead to Columbus' voyage to the Americas. What led Columbus to discover the Americas was this:

During this time period, the only known continents were Europe, Africa, and Asia, as they were all connected. There was immense trading between the continents, however, there were only two ways to get to Asia: through the Mediterranean or around Africa. The Italians controlled the Mediterranean trade route, so to get through them some heavy taxes had to be paid, if you were even let through at all. The trip around Africa was long and dangerous. So Christopher Columbus, an Italian, had an idea: sail across the Atlantic. He believed that Asia was right across the Atlantic from Europe. He went to Italy for the nation to fund his voyage but they called him crazy. This is because many people thought the Earth was flat and if you reached the end (which was believed to be the Atlantic), you'd fall off. He eventually offered his proposal to Spain, who accepted. So in name of Spain, Columbus and his men set sail across the Atlantic in hopes of finding a new trade route to the Indies. They imagined it to be a short sail so they didn't pack heavily. However, after a long time on sea, much longer than expected, land was spotted. They had believed to had landed in India, although, the people here spoke differently and looked a bit different. However, they referred to them as Indians, whom they thought they were. Columbus sailed many times back and forth between Europe and the so thought Indies. And it was not known until many years after his death that he had discovered a whole new land mass: the Americas. This was proven by Amerigo Vespucci, another Italian explorer, for whom the continents are named.

Spain had to go through the Mediterranean and then through the middle east and then through India to make it to china, so Spain wanted to find a new and easier way to trade with China. By traveling through such a large number of countries to the east the profits that the traders had decreased because they had to pay taxes to the separate countries which the traders passed through, and there were also bandits and raiders that would kill the traders and take their goods. Because of all this they encouraged Christopher Columbus to try and find a new way to the west...and then Columbus set sail on August 3rd with 3 ships ..... the Nina, the pinta, and the Santa Maria! Yeah! You got some info on Christopher Columbus!

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That answer up top I think is wrong.

The answer I think that is best to fit the question is

''He decided to sail west to reach the Indies. Because the cost of shipping by water was lower, Columbus and his backers would make more money when their cargo was sold''.

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Both answers are correct

Christopher Columbus did not invent the compass. The compass was invented in China for Feng Shui practitioners, to "align" the forces of the earth to help them maintain balance in their lives for later to become an important navigational tool.

in 1474 Columbus was a sailor on a ship attacked and destroyed by pirates he ended up floating to shore in Portugal? Fact or Fiction