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Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy and he was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. When he discovered America he was actually looking for Asia. His revolutionary assertion that the Indies (comprising India, China, the East Indies and Japan) could be reached by sailing westwards was later proved correct by Magellan who was also a maritime explorer, but what Columbus did not realize was that an entire continent lay in read more...

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