Christopher la roche biography for kids

Christopher Columbus (–) was a Genoesetrader, explorer, and navigator. He was born in Genoa, Italy, in the year "Christopher Columbus" is the English version of Columbus's name.

His name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo.

In , Columbus sailed from Spain to find a faster route from Europe to Asia.

Christopher la roche biography for kids

He landed instead on an island of the Bahamas. He is credited with the discovery of the New World because Europeans began colonizing America shortly after his voyage. While Leif Erikson was the first European to land on the soils of America, it was not well documented and did not lead to the later contact between Europe and the New World.

When the Spanish learned that Columbus had found the New World, many other people, called conquistadors, went there too.

This led to the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Columbus died on May 20, , in Valladolid, Spain.

Discovery of America

Columbus was not the first European person to have discovered Ameri