Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus changed the world. He took the world of the late middle ages, and set it on it’s path to becoming the world we live in today. This man might not have been the first person to set foot on American soil, but he certainly did “discover” America for Europeans, Africans, and Asians. If Columbus did not travel try to find a new root to Asia, the world would not have known North and South America existed for a long time. Not much is known about Columbus’ personal life. We do know he had at least two sons, and that he was married. Genoa, Italy is the best guess that anyone has for his birth place. Countries all over the world have tried to claim the great explorer. Some writers have said that he was a converted Jew, or a “converso.” One writer even claimed that Columbus was born in America and then travelled to Europe. These myths are just a few of the hundreds of stories told about where he was born. The same amount of confusion has been raised ab...