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This town was in southern Europe, in the country of Italy, where the sun shines brightly all the year, and where the sea is nearly always calm and blue. Every day ships came and went in the little harbor, and the boys and girls watched them from the wharf.  \n1. Columbus was born in  .  \na. Greece  \nb. Italy  \nc. Spain  \nd. Turkey  \nAs soon as Columbus could walk, his brother used to take him down to see the ships come and go. All day long the brothers would play about among the boats that were drawn up on the beach. Sometimes they were allowed to play on the decks of the ships, so that when Columbus was only seven years, old he knew the name of every mast and every sail and every rope.  \nThere were rowboats fastened  \nto the wharf, and Columbus liked to sit  \nand rock in them. Sometimes his brothers would row him out to the big ships in the harbor, and the boys would play that they were sailors going out on a voyage across the great ocean. Then they would talk of the wonderful cities they were going to see, and the wonderful treasures they were going to bring home.  \nvoyage  \nWhen Columbus was old enough, he would steer the boat, and his big brother would play captain. \"Keep due west!\" the brother would shout.  \nAnd Columbus would shout back, \"Ay, ay, sir.\"  \nOften, Columbus would sit for hours watching the sailors unload their ships. Sometimes they would let him help them, and then Columbus would go down into the hold, and into the cabin where the sailors lived while they were on board ship. He soon learned the names of all the parts of even the biggest ships, and could climb the rigging like a real sailor.  \nFree Printables for K-12 Education  \n2. Christopher Columbus liked helping the sailors.  \na. True  \nb. False  \n\"You will make a fine sailor by and by,\" the men would say to him.  \nBut best of all, Columbus liked to listen to the stories that the sailors told of' far-off countries, and to look at the wonderful things that they brought from the lands across the sea.  \n\"I shall be a sailor when I am aman!\" Columbus would say to himself.\"Then I shall see these far-off lands.\"  \nsailor  \nNow, the father of Columbus was a wool-comber. He would have been very glad to have Columbus learn the wool-comber's trade. But he soon saw that his son cared for nothing but thesea. So he said to him one day: \"I will send you to a school where you can learn all about the sea. I will send you to a school where you can learn to be a good sailor!\"  \n[www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com](www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com)  \n3. Columbus’s father was a  .  \na. explorer  \nb. prince  \nc. sailor  \nd. wool-comber  \nThis was just what Columbus longed for. He could hardly wait for the day when he should be allowed to go. How he studied at this school! How fast he learned! His teachers were proud of him; and his father and mother were proud of him, too.  \nWhen the boy had learned all there was for him to learn at this school, he came home and made ready to go to sea.  \nHe was only fourteen years old when he made his first voyage; and he\"followed the sea\" till he was an oldman.  \nMost people in those days thought that the earth was flat. \"If it is flat,\" they said. \"We must take care not to sail too near the edge. We might sail off, down into nowhere!\"  \nBut Columbus, on one of his voyages, had been to Iceland. There he had heard of the Vineland far away in the west. Besides, Columbus had read books which said that the earth is  \nround like a ball, and he felt sure that the books were right. Very few people knew about books in those days, so when Columbus began to talk about around earth, the people laughed at him.  \n\"Anybody can see for himself that the earth is flat,\" the people said.  \n\"It does not even look flat,\"Columbus would say. \"Indeed, when a ship goes","cbCaikKKugTm751E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikKKugTm751E","pdf",259379,"English","# Christopher Columbus\n## Early Life in Genoa\n## Training to Become a Sailor\n## Belief in a Round Earth\n## Support from Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand\n## The 1492 Voyage","[{\"question\":\"Where was Christopher Columbus born?\",\"answer\":\"Christopher Columbus was born in the town of Genoa, in southern Europe in Italy.\"},{\"question\":\"What did Columbus’s father want him to learn, and what did Columbus actually care about?\",\"answer\":\"Columbus’s father worked as a wool-comber and hoped Columbus would learn that trade, but Columbus cared only about the sea and sailing.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did people laugh at Columbus’s claims about the world?\",\"answer\":\"People believed the Earth was flat and warned that ships would sail off the edge, and they also feared dragons and sea serpents in strange seas.\"}]","Christopher Columbus - Free Printables for K-12 Education | PDF",1792382696,25]