.  Who is Christopher Columbus?

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         .Who is Christopher Columbus? TOP

          Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) a Spanish navigator from an Italian origin borne in Genoa. In 1486 Christopher Columbus presented a project of finding a western passage to Asia to Elisabeth I the queen of Castile. In 1492 Ferdinand V, king of Castile, & Elisabeth I granted to Christopher Columbus their approval  to finance his transatlantic expedition. The float was composed of three ships, the Santa Maria, Pinta & Niņa. On the 12th of October, the same year, the expedition reached an island from the Bahamas' shore, then Christopher Columbus baptized it San Salvador.


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After the discover of the new world settlers began to be interested in. Christopher Columbus helped establishing the first colonies, and that was the opening door to the European colonization of America.
The first permanent European settlement in what would become the United Station of America was near St. Augustine made by a Spaniard called Pedro Mendez around the year 1565.
Soon after, the European most powerful maritime nations guessed the urge of taking advantage into the new world. Therefore, the England, France, Netherlands and  Portugal forced their efforts to get solid claims into America.
The French had real interest in the new world first they sent the Florentine sailor Giovanni de Verrazano  he reached North Carolina in 1524. not long after they tried with Jacques Cartier with the hope of finding a  sea passage to Asia, this latter     set his sail into     the St. Lawrence river. This fact laid the foundation for the French claims in North America which were to last until 1763.
 After the failure of their first colony they tried to establish a colony in the northern coast of Florida two decades after Quebec  but it was destroyed by the Spanish in 1565.

England also tried to consolidate its situation in the new world. With the help of Walter Raleigh in 1585 the British empire established its first colony in North America on Roanoke island off the coast of North Carolina, It was later abandoned. It would be until the year 1607 that a successful colony  at Jamestown was set up. Then North America entered  a new era.