Q: Was it hard to let the King of Portugal let you go on the voyage?
A: Yes, i was very hard to get the king to let me leave. I came to him with the idea in 1484, but they said no. So I went to the Queen of Spain,Queen Isabella, and proposed my idea to her, but she rejected them because she thought that the idea was too expensive, but seven years later I finally got her to let me go, I got three ships; the Nina and Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Why did you leave Spain?
A: I left Spain in search for land in 1942, i crossed the Atlantic for 29 Days. And on October 7, 1492, we spotted land. I named it San Salvador, we also explored several other islands in the Caribbean. We captured Indians and took exotic things to bring back to Europe, when we got back the Queen was pleased to see what we had found and we were treated like hero's.
Q: Why Was this important?
A: Because if Columbus didn't leave Spain we might not have found the Caribbean and the Americas.
Recourse's;
- "Columbus, Christopher." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 19-22. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 13 Nov. 2010.
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