Heshan de silva biography of christopher columbus

Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)  was an Italian explorer, colonizer, and navigator.

He is remembered as the principal European discoverer of the Americas and he helped bring the Americas to the forefront of the western consciousness. His discoveries and travels laid the framework for the later European colonisation of Latin and North America.

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

– Christopher Columbus

Short bio Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today Northwestern Italy.

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Although the habitability of early Mars is now well established, its suitability for conditions favorable to an independent origin of life.

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This led to submission of 31 scientific sessions with about 60 conveners covering Earth's and other planets' history from the Precambrian to the.

His father was a middle-class wool merchant, though it was relatively humble beginnings for what he later became. Columbus learnt to sail from an early age and later worked as a business agent, travelling around Europe to England, Ireland and later along the West coast of Africa.

He was not a scholar but was an enthusiastic self-educated man, who read extensively on astronomy, science and n