Columbus Brief History: Christopher Columbus was an Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Christopher entered this trade as a young man. In the mid-1470s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Khíos in …showed first 75 words of 1560 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1560 total…seeing nothing of the land which the Nina had made signals for, and observing large flocks of birds coming from the North and making for the southwest, I concluded that they were either going to land to pass the night, or abandoning the countries of the north, on account of the approaching winter, I determined to alter the course. Bibliography 1. Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Little, 1942. 2. Encarta ‘98. “Christopher Columbus.” 1998. 3. www.columbus.org. !999.