25 facts about christopher columbus

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian trader, explorer, and navigator. The traditional view is that he was born in Genoa, Italy, in the year 1451, the son of a weaver named Domenico Colombo and a seamstress named Susanna Fontanarossa.

However, recent genetic evidence suggests he was a Sephardi Jew from the Iberian Peninsula.^[1] "Christopher Columbus" is the English version of Columbus's name. His real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo.

In 1492 Columbus landed on an island of the Bahamas, the first European to do so.

How did christopher columbus die

His initial goal was to find a quicker route to Asia from Europe. He is known as the person who discovered the New World because his voyage started the era of European colonialism in the Americas. This was an important moment in European history.

While Leif Erikson was the first European to land on the soils of America it was not well documented and did not lead to the later contact between Europe and the New World.