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Answer: Seeing as he is a person he doesn’t have a definition but Christopher Columbus was an explorer from Genoa in the 15th century. He is commonly credited with being the first to discover (technically he stumbled upon it) the americas. He was paid by the Catholic monarchs of Spain to go on a voyage to find the famed passageway west of Europe that would lead to Asia. Obviously he failed because no such passageway exists.
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He's famous for 'discovering the new world', but did Columbus actually set foot in North America? Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
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