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Christopher Columbus
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Early Life
• Born in Genoa, Italy• Worked with his
father as a cloth maker
• Brother – Bartolomeo was a cartographer
• Ran away to join a ship
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Appearance
• Red hair – turned white in early life
• Light skin with too much sun exposure turning his face red
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Nina
• The Niña carried 24 men
• Captained by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón.
• After running the Santa Maria aground, Columbus returned on the Niña
• Nina was actually names the Santa Clara (little girl)
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The Pinta
• The Pinta (the "Painted") was fastest of the three ships used
• The new world was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on
• Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. It was square rigged and was smaller than the Santa María
• The crew size was 26 men.
• Captain of the Pinta was Martín Alonso Pinzón.
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Santa Maria
• The Santa María was the largest of the three ships
• Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa.
• The Santa María was a small carrack,
• The flagship for the expedition. • She carried 40 men. • Ran aground while being
steered by a boy and was abandoned on Christmas morning.
• Nicknamed the Gallega
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Sighting Land
• Bahamas
• Rodrigo de Triana
• Aboard the Pinta
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Natives
• Columbus wrote this of the Natives that he met:
• It appears to me that the people are ingenious, and would be very good servants and I am of the opinion they would very readily become Christians…
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1st Voyage• Santa Maria ran aground on Christmas
morning and had to be abandoned
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2nd Voyage
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3rd Voyage• Dealt with rebellious settled and natives
• Had some of his crew hanged for disobeying him
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4th Voyage
• Hurricane
• Hoped to find shelter at Santa Domingo
• New governor refused to listen to hurricane warning
• Columbus ship sheltered elsewhere
• 29 of 30 ships were lost, 500 lives, governor, and gargo of gold
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4th Voyage
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Stranded
• Crew was stranded on Jamaica
• Governor refused to help and obstructed rescue help
• Intimidated the Natives by predicting a lunar eclipse
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Death
• Died of Reiter’s Syndrome
• Reactive arthritis
• Burning urination
• Pain and swelling of the knees
• Conjunctivitis of the eyes
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Columbus's tomb in Seville
Cathedral. It is borne by
four statues of kings
representing the Kingdoms of
Castile, Leon, Aragon, and
Navarre.
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• Never set foot on the US.