Columbus was born in Italy in one of its port cities. He was a sailor. He was shipwrecked and swam six miles to Portugal with an oar. Prince Henry had started a sailing school in Portugal. Christoffer Columbus learned about sailing there. He became a captain of ships and was considered one of the greatest sailors. He thought he could sail west and get to the Indies. He asked people to sponsor his trip. The king and queen of Spain did. He got three ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. He sailed across the ocean and found land. He thought it was the Indies, and he called the people on the land Indians. He started looking for gold. He didn't find any gold but he made a settlement on an island called Hispaniola. He left for a year. He came back and the settlement was destroyed by the Indians because the men were treating them badly. So he started it again. He wasn't a good governor so a man from Spain came to be governor. Columbus ended up making four trips to this new land. He thought it was the Indies. When he died he didn't know that he had discovered the American Continent.
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