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Genoa, Italy
May 20, 1506
Valladolid, Spain
Italian explorer
"Thirty-three days after my departure from Cadiz I reached the Indian sea, where I discovered many islands, thickly peopled, of which I took possession without resistance in the name of our most illustrious Monarch, . . . "
Christopher Columbus.
Christopher Columbus was the Italian explorer credited with "discovering" the New World (a European term for the continents of North America and South America). Columbus made four voyages to the Caribbean and South America between 1492 and 1504. As governor of Hispaniola (an island in the Caribbean), he...
Source: Colonial America: Biographies, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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