Christopher Columbus by Luke S.

Have you ever heard about christopher columbus. Yes? Well I bet you do not know all the stuff he did. Let me tell you.

Christopher columbus was born on october 31, 1451 in genoa What is now present day Italy . Columbus was the oldest of five children and his mom and dad were wine sellers gatekeepers and wool weavers.

Since columbus was a little boy his father pushed him into a business carrier. Also known as a job. For most of the time columbus sailed but then he got interested in selling maps with his brother diego.

Columbus left school at age 14 to become a sailor. He started sailing when he was age 14 he went on many expeditions. Christopher’s name was cristobal colon. cristobal colon was his english name and christopher columbus was his Italian name.

When columbus first started his major expedition he had to get money. He first asked the king of portugal to lend him money but he wouldn't let columbus have it. Then he asked queen isabella for some money but she also said no. Columbus then sailed to the canary islands many times between the 1480s to 1485.

Over the years queen isabella thought about what she had said and regretted it. She summoned columbus and offord to pawn the jewels in her crown to pay for the voyage.

The voyage started on August 3, 1492. The ship had a translator, three physicians, servants, and a secretary with an accountant. Columbus

Soon reached the new world or so he thought. Columbus was not the first European to reach the Western hemisphere but he did explore new islands. Columbus encountered islands in the caribbean sea.

Columbus called the place sansalividor and settled down to find it’s riches. Unfortunately the natives who lived there only showed columbus some small ingots of gold but that did not stop columbus from searching. Columbus rounded up the male boys and adults that were 14 and older pan for gold in streams. If they did not succeed he would cut their hands of or whip them.

When Columbus was returning home he crashed on a sharp coral reef near present day haiti. Columbus was stranded for a little over a year until the spanish sent ships to rescue him. But when the ships came the men charged columbus with treasian for enslaving the natives. Columbus was locked in chains and sent home,

After columbus returned home Queen isabella was very angry. You see columbus had done some pretty bad stuff and he even brought some of the natives back with him to become slaves but most of them had died on the way. And if that was not enough columbus wanted to rule the new world and take 10% of it’s riches.

But columbus had done some good things to. You see when columbus brought over the indians they had brought peppers and corn things that the people of england never had. Queen isabella pardoned columbus of all the crimes that he had done and columbus was fine.

Queen isabella died a few weeks after columbus returned and columbus settled into a live of peace and harmony. A couple of years later columbus suffered malaria and went delirious also known as going crazy.

Columbus Died on May 20, 1506. A lot of people believe he died poor but he died very wealthy. Also columbus's bones were believed to be moved twice to different locations. To this day no one knows where he is buried. Now you know all about columbus and what he did.