What Was Christopher Columbus's Childhood Like?

Christopher Columbus is a famous explorer and colonizer who lived from 1451 to 1506 and is best known as the man who "discovered” America and started the rush of European colonization of the Western Hemisphere. His childhood was very much like any other child who grew up in Europe in the mid-15th century.

Columbus was born in the Italian city of Genoa. His father was a wool weaver who also owned a cheese stand in which young Christopher worked as a child. His first venture out on the sea came at the age of ten. When Columbus was nineteen years of age, his family moved to Savona where his father took over the operation of a tavern. Soon afterward Columbus got a job on a ship in Genoa to help support an attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. In 1473, Columbus started as an apprentice as a business agent for a import business and was part of convoys protecting valuable cargo.

He gradually worked his way up the ladder before becoming a captain of a ship as an adult. His first trip to the Western Hemisphere in 1492 was a huge success as Columbus landed in what is believed to be the Bahamas and brought back a huge bounty to the King and Queen of Spain who had commissioned the trip.

Columbus would make four more trips to the New World before his death in 1506. None of them would be successful as the first and he would die while awaiting to have another trip financed by the royalty of Spain or Italy. He will forever be a controversial figure in the history of the Western world and a holiday in his honor is celebrated in his honor every October, even though it is now common knowledge that he was not the first to reach America.

Christopher Columbus was an navigator, colonizer and explorer who belonged to Italy. Historians agree that he was born between August and October 1451 in Genoa, Italy.

His father was Domenico Colombo, who was a middle class wool weaver. His mother was Susanna Fontanarossa. His father also opened a cheese stand, where he worked as a helper later on. He had two brothers.

He attended Prince Henry's school of navigation in Sagres, Portugal at the age of 13. Columbus himself has written that he went to the sea at the age of 10. This happened in 1470 when he was hired on a Genoese ship in  the service of Rene I of Anjou.

He began his apprenticeship as a business agent for Centurione, Di Negro and Spinola families in the year 1473. He later on made a trip to Chios in the Aegean SEA. He also took part in armed convoy which was sent by Genoa to Northern Europe in May 1476. These childhood opportunities helped him become an explorer later on.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa Italy October 31 1451 . The family of Christopher Columbus was poor and his dad had a cheese stand

He had  very poor education his dad
was a wool Weaver  he thought him self how to read and right

Became a SAilor at the Age of 15. Sailed on a ship called the Santa Maria. Made 4 voyages accross the antlantic. Discovered the West Indies. Set up the colony of Isabela. He was the first European since the vikings to discover the New America.
First wife was Dona Felipa and she died at the age of 27, they both had a son named Diego.
He had little formal education, didnt learn to write until adult hood.
Left his wife for a Wealthy widow.
His discovery brough the world into New Theather.

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Christopher Columbus is considered as the first European to discover America. He was born in the year 1451 in Genoa, Italy. His father was a wool weaver. Complete information on his childhood is not available however, it is said that he received incomplete education and according to his writings, he went to the sea at the age of 10.He spoke in Genoese dialect. In 1473, at the age of 22, he began his apprenticeship as a business agent.

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Christopher Columbus was very rich when he was a child, had a great education (and was brilliant at geography) and took lots of interest in traveling and different countries.

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He did not drown because he died at the age of 55, not nine.

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He loved to sail when he was just a boy. He was born in genoa Italy.

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I say life for him was rough because there was no technology back then.They had to use the stars to navigate there way.So life for christopher columbus had to be rough.

Christopher was born in Genoa Italy in 1451 into a poor family, his father was a Wool weaver. Even when he was just a boy Columbus loved to sail and became a sailor at the age of 15.

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