Columbus Facts

As most people agree that Columbus never discovered the Americas for one or more of the following reasons:
- People were already there
- He thought he was in Asia
- There is proof that the Vikings got to America earlier
- There are stories of other people from around the world finding a distant land that matches the Americas in general location/discribtion
- He was a jerk who’s actions were even considered horrible in his day, so he doesn’t deserve it


We thought we would give you some info on things that he actually did.


- He was born in 1451
- He died on May 20th 1506
- There are no paintings of him made during his life around today.
- He like many people at that time thought the world was rounded. Unlike most he thought it incorrectly was smaller than most; however, he was correct in that it was not a perfect sphere. (He compared it to a breast)
- He tried to get many kingdoms to finance his trip before getting the Spanish royalty to do so. (The queen did not sell her jewels for this as she already sold them to pay for fighting the Moors.)
- In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue (also 1493, 1494, 1498, 1500, & 1502)
- His efforts to enslave the people living in the lands that he landed on were in direct opposition to what he was commissioned to do as the King and Queen of Spain considered them as their subjects (as they considered the land theirs).
- He had reactive arthritis which might have caused a heart attack that killed him
- He was buried in Valladolid, then Seville, the Dominican Republic, Havana, Cuba, (or his brother or son) and finally back to Seville. (or he always was in Spain and someone else or only part of him did all the moving)
- He has many things named after him; however, Columbus wasn’t his name but a variation of it.