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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus is famous foe discovering that the world is not flat it is round. Christopher Columbus sailed all cross the Atlantic Ocean. he arrived within the Bahamas he was named San Salvador. His original name in the 15th century was Christoffa Corombo. In Portuguise they called him Cristobal Colon

Christopher Columbus was born in Liguria,Genoa in 1451. He died May 20 1506 in Valladolid,Spain. When Christopher Columbus died he was 54 years old. Christopher Columbus married Dona Felipa. He got married in 1480 in the Madeira Islands.

Christopher Columbus sailed with three ships. The nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. On his firdt trip he went somewhere in the Bahamas. When he sailed to Europe he was named Admiral of the Ocean Seas by Ferdinand and Isabella. He made three more boyages.