Christopher Columbus Thesis

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, a Navigator, and a colonizer. He was also a citizen of the republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. He's also known as the man who discovered America. Columbus was born somewhere around 1451 and his hometown is Genoa that's in Italy. His father was Domenico Columbus and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, he was the son of wool merchants. Columbus also had three younger brothers, Bartholomew Columbus, Giovanni Pellegrino Columbus, and lastly Giacomo Columbus, he also had a sister named Bianchinetta Columbus. Christopher and his family moved to Savona around 1470, that's also when Columbus traveled the seas as a pirate and attacked ships belonging to the Moors.Somewhere around

And a year later they had a son named Diego Colon.Four to Five years after they had a son Christopher fails to gain the patronage from the king of Portugal to enable his search for a trade route to the indies. Felipa died in 1485 of having consumption, so Christopher and I think his son both decide to move to Cadizin in Spain where he meets Dona Beatriz Enriquez De Arana which later he marries, after a couple of years pass by Columbus and Dona Have a son and his name is Ferdinand, better known as Fernando. In 1491 Columbus makes a fool of himself and tries to appeal to the king Ferdinand of Spain for Patronage but he yet again got rejected. A couple months go by and the Priest Father Perez intercedes on the behalf of Columbus and pleads with the queen Isabella to fund Columbus emphasising that he would be able to convert heathen races to Christianity.In 1492 king Ferdinand and queen Isabella of Spain finally agreed to act as patrons for Christopher Columbus and to provide the money and the ships Columbus