Презентация "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS"
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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- Mrs. Miner
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- BORN : Genoa, Italy * 1451
- MARRIED : Felipa Perestre Moniz
- CHILDREN : Diego and Ferdinand
- DIED : Valladolid, Spain * May 20, 1506
- Columbus’s signature and Coat of Arms
- Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain. He arrives in the West Indies and lands on the island of San Salvador on October 12, 1492.
- Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain. He explores the islands of Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola.
- He returns to Spain in June 1496.
- Columbus leaves from Sanlucar, Spain. He finally lands on the mainland of South America. (Present-day Venezuela)
- Columbus leaves on his final voyage from Cadiz, Spain. Columbus investigates the Central American Coast. He sails along the coasts of what are now Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
- Columbus sailed along the coasts of what are now Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
- At the narrowest part of the isthmus of Panama, Columbus heard stories that a large body of water laid a dew days’ march across the mountains. Because of his failure to investigate these stories, Columbus missed the chance to become the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
