Christopher

Columbus
Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today
Northwestern Italy.

Columbus learnt to sail from an early age and later worked as a business
agent, travelling around Europe to England, Ireland and later along the
West coast of Africa.
He was not a scholar but was an
enthusiastic self-educated man,
who read extensively on
astronomy, science and
navigation. He also became
fluent in Latin, Portuguese and
Spanish.

Some people think of him as the

"discoverer" of America, but this
is not strictly true. He never set
foot in North America.
 Columbus made four trips between Spain and
the Americas between 1492 and 1503, and he
never once set foot in North America.

Columbus died in 1506, aged 54 from a heart

attack related to reactive arthritis
 Arrival of
Christopher
Columbus
Right on the night of October 11-12, 1492, the cry of "Land!"
was given.

Christopher Columbus always believed that he had reached

India without suspecting that he had stumbled upon the
American continent.

Columbus called all the people he met in the islands ‘Indians’,

because he was sure that he had reached the Indies.
 The arrival of the first
conquerors in America will
initiate the global expansion of
Europe and the domination and
colonisation of the American
continent.
1492 1502
Arrives at Cuba, La He visited:
Hispaniola and La Honduras
Navidad. Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
1493
Arrives at Cuba, Jamaica,
Puerto Rico and found La
Isabela.

1498
Arrives at the new city of
Santo Domingo on
Hispaniola. Columbus
resumes his role as governor
o of the colony.
"The fusion of
people and
culture''

‘’Exchanges of
all kinds’’
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