Question

Christopher Columbus was a famous (51) ____________who was once believed to have been the man who (52)___________ America.

Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy and was sailing on trade boats by the age of fourteen. He was (53) _________ by the journeys of Marco Polo, an explorer who (54) __________ to Asia in the 1200s. Like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus thought he could find a shorter (55) ___________ to travel from (56)__________ to (57) _____________.

He (58) ____________to ask the King of Portugal to fund his travels, but he said no. It would be the King and Queen of Spain who (59) ___________ Columbus to make the (60)___________ in hopes of finding new (61)____________ for trade. On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his (62)_________ set sail from Spain in three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in the East Indies, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the (63) ___________ islands, likely San Salvador.

Yes, it is a myth that Columbus discovered (64)____________. The natives had been there for a long time already, and the Vikings explored North America hundreds of years before Columbus left Spain. We remember Columbus because he opened North and South America to European settlement and exploration, two things that would (65) ___________the world forever.

Answer 1

the other person is correct

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Answer 2

explorer, discovered, fascinated, traveled, passage, Europe, Asia, decided, hired, expedition, resources, crew, blank, America, influence