Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Early Life

• Born in Genoa, Italy• Worked with his

father as a cloth maker

• Brother – Bartolomeo was a cartographer

• Ran away to join a ship

Appearance

• Red hair – turned white in early life

• Light skin with too much sun exposure turning his face red

Nina

• The Niña carried 24 men

• Captained by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón.

• After running the Santa Maria aground, Columbus returned on the Niña

• Nina was actually names the Santa Clara (little girl)

The Pinta

• The Pinta (the "Painted") was fastest of the three ships used

• The new world was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on

• Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. It was square rigged and was smaller than the Santa María

• The crew size was 26 men.

• Captain of the Pinta was Martín Alonso Pinzón.

Santa Maria

• The Santa María was the largest of the three ships

• Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa.

• The Santa María was a small carrack,

• The flagship for the expedition. • She carried 40 men. • Ran aground while being

steered by a boy and was abandoned on Christmas morning.

• Nicknamed the Gallega

Sighting Land

• Bahamas

• Rodrigo de Triana

• Aboard the Pinta

Natives

• Columbus wrote this of the Natives that he met:

• It appears to me that the people are ingenious, and would be very good servants and I am of the opinion they would very readily become Christians…

1st Voyage• Santa Maria ran aground on Christmas

morning and had to be abandoned

2nd Voyage

3rd Voyage• Dealt with rebellious settled and natives

• Had some of his crew hanged for disobeying him

4th Voyage

• Hurricane

• Hoped to find shelter at Santa Domingo

• New governor refused to listen to hurricane warning

• Columbus ship sheltered elsewhere

• 29 of 30 ships were lost, 500 lives, governor, and gargo of gold

4th Voyage

Stranded

• Crew was stranded on Jamaica

• Governor refused to help and obstructed rescue help

• Intimidated the Natives by predicting a lunar eclipse

Death

• Died of Reiter’s Syndrome

• Reactive arthritis

• Burning urination

• Pain and swelling of the knees

• Conjunctivitis of the eyes

Columbus's tomb in Seville

Cathedral. It is borne by

four statues of kings

representing the Kingdoms of

Castile, Leon, Aragon, and

Navarre.

• Never set foot on the US.