Christopher Columbus was born		Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria.
Columbus was not trying to prove		in Genoa, Italy.
Columbus's goal was		wanted fame and fortune.
Columbus was ambitious and		because he thought he had found the Indies.
It took him eight years		an island he named San Salvador.
His three ships were the		accompanied him on his last voyage.
His first landing was on		the world was round.
He called the island inhabitants "Indians"		to persuade the king and queen to fund his trip.
When he got to Cuba he thought		four voyages across the sea.
Columbus made a total of		to find a short way to the Indies by ship.
At the end of his life he only		he had reached China.
His 13-year-old son Ferdinand		had a pension to live on.