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Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from Genoa, Italy who sailed across the Atlantic. With four trips of exploration and several efforts to build settlements on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he began the process of Spanish colonization that predicted the general European colonization of the "New World".

Although not the first to reach America from Europe, he was preceded by a group of Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built 500 years earlier temporary settlements at L'Anse aux Meadows.

The term "pre-Columbian" is usually used to refer to American society and culture before the arrival of Columbus and his successors Europe.

The name Christopher Columbus is Anglicisation from the Latin Christophorus Columbus. The original name in the language of 15th-century Genoa is Christoffa Corombo,

Beginning in 1492 Columbus came at a critical emerging modern western imperialism and economic competition between developing kingdom seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In a sociopolitical climate, Columbus far-fetched scheme won the attention of Isabella I of Castile. Very underestimated the circumference of the Earth, he estimates that the westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the spice trade favorable to the Arabs and Italians. He also landed in the Bahamas (San Salvador).
In 1492 Columbus landed in America is usually celebrated as Columbus Day on October 12 in Spain and throughout the United States, except Canada. In the United States is celebrated every year on the second Monday in October.

Christopher Columbus was born between August 25 and October 31, 1451 in Genoa, a part of modern Italy. His father was Domenico Colombo, a wool weaver middle class, who then also has a cheese shop. Her mother has a brother namely Susanna Fontanarossa.Colombus Bartolomeo, Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo. Bartolomeo worked in a cartography workshop in Lisbon.

Columbus never wrote in his native language, but it may be assumed that this is a variety of Liguria Genoa. In one of his writings, Columbus claims to have gone to sea at the age of 10 years. In 1470 the family moved to Columbus Savona, where Domenico took over a bar. In the same year, Columbus at Genoa boat hire in the service of René I of Anjou to support his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Naples.