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Yes Christopher Columbus born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Respuesta:In the year 1451, Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa (Italy), son of the wool carder Domenico Colombo and Susana Fontanarossa. In the 1470s, Columbus traveled the Mediterranean Sea, reaching the island of Quío (or Chío) and the waters of Tunisia. He then traveled to England, from where he made a crossing to Iceland. Upon his return he settled in Portugal and dedicated himself, together with his brother Bartolomé, to drawing marine charts (portulans) to sell them in Lisbon. In this way, the Colóns were linked to important geographers of the time such as Fernão Martins or Paolo del Pozzo Toscanelli. At this same time, Cristóbal learned a rudimentary Latin that would help him to read the works of the wise men. In addition, he was commissioned to make a trip to the islands of Madera to purchase a shipment of sugar. In 1479 he married Felipa Moniz de Perestrello, daughter of the first governor of Porto Santo de Madera, with whom he had his son Diego, future viceroy of the Indies. In 1483, Columbus had the opportunity to visit the Portuguese factories on the coasts of Africa. With all this baggage he drew up his project of reaching the Indies from the west. Columbus's Portuguese stage culminated in 1485, when, his project rejected by a commission appointed by King John II and his wife dead, he moved to Spain with his son. Hosted by the Franciscans of the La Rábida convent near the port of Palos, and assisted by the former confessor of Queen Isabel la Católica, Fray Juan Pérez, Colón presented his project to the Catholic Monarchs, who, after two rejections, In April 1492 they granted him the Capitulations of Santa Fe. Shortly before he had had his second son, Hernando, the fruit of his union with Beatriz Enríquez de Arana. Once the trip that allowed Columbus to reach American shores was concluded, he continued to carry out companies for the crown of Spain. However, despite having undertaken three more trips to America and being recognized as a great navigator and explorer, he would never know that he had reached a continent unknown to Europeans at that time. Likewise, he had to face many problems, both with the crown and with the first settlers of the island of Hispaniola, due to his incompetence as administrator and governor of the new possessions. He died in Valladolid in 1506.