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It recounts his youth at sea, key events including a battle near Portugal, his life in Lisbon with mapmaking and voyages, and his plan to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic. Includes map-based and multiple-choice questions tied to the narrative.","Name:   Date:   Class:    \nCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS  \n(ca. 1451-1506)  \nChristopher Columbus, the first modern European explorer of the Americas, was born at Genoa, a seaport of Italy, around the year 1451. His father was a wool-comber.1 Christopher did not care to learn that trade, but wanted to become a sailor. Seeing the boy's strong liking for thesea, his father sent him to a school where he could learn geography, map-drawing, and whatever else might help him to become someday commander of a vessel.  \n1. Christopher Columbus was born in  , Italy.  \na. Florence  \nb. Genoa  \nc. Rome  \nd. Turin  \nWhen he was fourteen, Columbus went to sea. In those days,  \n1  \nWool-comber: before wool can be spun into thread and woven into cloth, the tangled locks must be combed out straight and smooth; once this was all done by hand.  \nthe Mediterranean Sea swarmed with warships and pirates. Every sailor, no matter if he was but a boy, had to stand ready to fight his way from port to port.  \nIn this exciting life, full of adventure and of danger, Columbus grew to adulthood. The rough experiences he then had did much toward making him the determined captain and explorer2 that he afterwards became.  \n2. Young Christopher Columbus learned sailing in the   .  \na. Arctic Ocean  \nb. Bay of Bengal  \nc. Mediterranean Sea  \nd. Pacific Ocean  \nAccording to some accounts, Columbus once had a desperate battle with a vessel off the coast of Portugal. The fight lasted, it is said, all day. At length both vessels were  \n2 Explorer: one who explores or discovers new countries.  \nCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 2  \nfound to be on fire. Columbus jumped from his blazing ship into the sea, and catching hold of a floating oar, managed, with its help, to swim to the shore, about six miles away.  \nLeft: Columbus as a boy. From a statue in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  \nHe then went to the port of Lisbon.3 There he married the  \ndaughter of a famous sea-captain. For a  \nlong time after his marriage Columbus earned his living partly by drawing maps, which he sold to commanders of vessels visiting Lisbon, and partly by making voyages to Africa, Iceland, and other countries.  \nColumbus Columbus  \nvoyage voyage voyage  \nThe maps which Columbus made and sold were very different  \n3 Lisbon is the capital city of Portugal.  \nfrom those we now have. At that time, half of the world was unknown to Europeans. Europe, Asia, and a small part of Africa were the chief countries known. The maps of Columbus may have shown the earth shaped like a ball, but he supposed it to be much smaller than it really is. 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