Jean guillaume beatrix biography of christopher columbus

Christopher Columbus and the Age of Discovery

During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands.

The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery,” also known as “Age of Exploration.”

Starting in about 1420, small Portuguese ships known as caravels zipped along the African coast, carrying spices, gold and other goods as well as enslaved people from Asia and Africa to Europe.

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CHAPTER III. The Ancestry and Home of Columbus.

AMERICA, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

Narrative and critical history of America.

The biography tells us how courteously Columbus was received by the Italian merchants in Lisbon, and 70 The CAREER OF COLUMBUS.

He himself left Lisbon[Pg 14] many other friends, and here met with Beatrix Enriquez, the mother of his second son, Hernando, who was born August 15, A.

Christopher Columbus was not the first person to propose that a person could reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. In fact, scholars argue that the idea is almost as old as the idea that the Earth is round. (That is, it dates back to early Rome.)

Other European nations, particularly Spain, were eager to share in the seemingly limitless riches of the “Far East.” By the end of the 15th century,