Essay Example on Who Was Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a born in Genoa Italy and was born in 1451 He married the daughter of the governor her name was Filipa Moniz He had 2 sons named Diego and Fernando Columbus Fernando was born out of wedlock in 1488 with Beatriz Enriquez de Arana His parents Susanna Fontanarossa and Domenico Columbo were both born in Italy and so were his three brothers Bartholomew Giacomo Giovanni and his sister Bianchinetta His real name was Cristoforo Colombo which he was named in Italy In Spanish he was known as Cristobal Colon He died in 1506 at the age of 55 of heart failure and was original was buried Carthusian monastery in Seville and then was dug up again to be taken to Santo Domingo and then was dug up for the second time because the French had took over the Caribbean and was moved to Havana After the Spanish American he was finally layer to rest in the cathedral in Saville He is most famous for his voyage and discovering America His Adventures Before the Voyage to America Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail his first voyage was to the island of Khios witch is now known as Greece and that's what made him want to go to Asia One of his voyages almost cost him his life he was just sailed of the cost of Lisbon and the French pirates blew up his ship and burned it he had to swim to Lisbon were he married his first wife He also went on 5 other adventures all throughout 

Africa and gained knowledge of the Atlantic ocean Columbus's second voyage left from Cadiz Spain in 1493 1496 He left with17 ships and 1200 men He was trying to conquer the Taino tribe In 1498 on the 30 of may Columbus's third voyage was set sent of with 6 ships on his third trip to the new world he was also accompanied by Bartolome de les cases His Voyage to America If he found a faster way to Asia he would become one of the greatest explorers of all time He tried four times to get to Asia He first left Spain in 1492 he had three ships the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria in search of a faster way of getting to Asia The fourth time he set off for a better route to Asia but this time he would find America but what he didn t know that he had found the Caribbean islands first and traveled from island to island until he found America When he found America a man named martin Waldseemuller made a map that had finally had America on it but maybe it should not be called that he had made a mistake he had thought that Amerigo Vespucci discovered America but it was colobus who found it but there are some suspicions that he did not discover America and that the Viking Leif Eriksson was the first European to set foot on America Christopher Columbus is most known for discovering America because he told everyone about his findings and took people to America to live The Indians Christopher Columbus first came in contact with the Indians in1492 in the Bahamas when he first arrived and was traveling through the jungle The native Indians actually came from Asia in 3 waves they traveled to America from a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska 12 000 years ago and then going from north to south America 

The Americans have a tradition every year called thanksgiving which is on the 4th Thursday of November they celebrate the day that Christopher Columbus and the native Indians joined tougher after they had been fighting for so long they decided to have a meal together and the mane Corse was turkey and that s why people have turkey on thanks giving every year they have food round the table and say what they are grateful for American history The presidents The most known presidents are Abraham liken J F Kennedy Benjamin franklin gorge Washington Obama and Donald trump all leas president are well known for being good at doing there jobs In America there is 4 faces carved in a mounting they are Abraham liken gorge Washington Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson and Adams were close friends and died a year to the day apart from each other and another interesting fact Abraham liken was a wrestler and had over a three hundred fights and only lost one match and did you know that woodrow wilson is on a hundred thousand dollar bill The civil war The reason that the civil war took place was due to slavery issues and some stats rights You would think that The most common reason for death was in the civil war would be of being shot but it was actually because of a fever called dysentery it was the most fatal disease in the civil war