1 / 9

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451. He was a very famous explorer and found many interesting discoveries. Fact File. Christopher Columbus was a famous explorer. He was born in 1451. He died 26 th November 1504.

dysis
Download Presentation

Christopher Columbus

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Christopher Columbus • Christopher Columbus was born in 1451. • He was a very famous explorer and found many interesting discoveries.

  2. Fact File Christopher Columbus was a famous explorer. • He was born in 1451. • He died 26th November 1504. • Christopher Columbus found America and proved the world was not flat. • P.O.B: Genoa , Italy.

  3. Columbus’s early years • Christopher Columbus never went to school but he did dream to be a famous sailor and this dream came true. He made the dream at the age of seventeen.

  4. Preparing for the voyage. • Christopher Columbus went to the English to get some funding for his voyage. But the English thought he was mad, so he went to the Queen of Spain and she gave him some money to buy a ship and a crew.

  5. Life on board • Life on board was very hard. • They had to eat biscuits, salted beef and salted fish. • There were lots of jobs to do on the ship like scrubbing the decks and putting the sails out.

  6. Columbus voyages • Soon after landing at Pallor's in March 1493, Columbus wrote to the King and Queen. He reported that he had claimed money for Spain.

  7. Discoveries • Christopher Columbus set sail to India but really he ended up in Florida, America. He called America ‘The New World’ and his journey proved the world was not flat.

  8. CONCLUSIONS • We think that Columbus is important because he found America to live in. He also discovered the world was not flat so when were at school we know correct facts.

  9. Christopher Columbus’s Life. By Zak, Alima , Sanom.

More Related