Speech on Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa between August and October 1451. His father was a weaver and small-time merchant. As a teenager, Christopher went to sea, travelled extensively and eventually made Portugal his base.

He then attempted to find a faster route to Asia in order to trade. His crew wanted to turn back as they did not sight land for a long time. Ten weeks later, land was sighted. On 12 October, Columbus and a group of his men set foot on an island in what later became known as the Bahamas. After returning to Spain he was dubbed a hero and ‘admiral of the Seven seas’. Columbus landed on a number of other islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba and Hispaniola, and returned to Spain in triumph.

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Not known by many is that Christopher Columbus was not the discover the Americas. IT is known that Scandinavian Vikings already had settlements here in the eleventh century, and British fisherman most probably fished the shores of Canada for decades before Columbus.

It was his luck that the moment he discovered the Americas was an important period in the history of man. IN the 15th century the most significant navigational expanses and the first fast and reliable means of transport- which meant that his discovery could introduce trade and migration between the two countries. This meant that his discovery of the ...

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