Amy Xu
Miss Allen
English 3, Period 7
23 September 2015
The Life of a Greater Sailor In 1451, the birth of a son into a textile artisan’s family in Genoa, Italy marks the beginning of a new generation. The father, Domenico Columbus, and the mother, Susanna Fontanarossa, named this baby Christopher Columbus. As the eldest child in his family, Columbus is deemed by many as the most influential person in the world base on his pioneering travels, exploring and cartography. During Columbus’s childhood, he helped his family to weave cloth (Pennington). After years of effort and practice, the weave work made Columbus becomeore patient and grow both of his talent and operational ability, which laid a basis for him to draw the compass map. Genoa …show more content…
He worked as an agent for the Spinolas, Di Negros, and Centuriones which had the most powerful Genoese among all commercial families (Mangin). In the mid-1470 's, Columbus attended in a trading expedition to the island of Chios, a Genoese possession in the Aegean Sea (Mangin). In 1476, he lived in a Genoese colony in Lisbon, Portugal (Edward 8). According to legend, he went to Portugal by swimming ashore holding onto an oar after being attacked by pirates In Lisbon, Columbus drew and sold maps with his brother Bartholomew (Mangin). Later, his father failed in business and died (Pennington). This huge calamity made Columbus lose confidence in business and made him put all focus on the sea. When it was possible for him to become a sailor, he left the land and started his life on the sea. As a sailor, he visited many countries, such as Spain, England, France and others. While sailing, he gained a lot of precious experience of drawing maps as …show more content…
The route connected the new land and the old land contact together. His discovery marked the beginning of a Navigation Time and changed the progress of history; Christopher Columbus was an outstanding navigator and an influential person of the world.
Works Cited
Pennington, Ken. "Voyages of Christopher Columbus." Web. 23 Sept. 2015. Mangin, Julie. "1492: An Ongoing Voyage Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth." Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
"1492: An Ongoing Voyage Inventing America." Inventing America. Web. 23 Sept. 2015. Channing, Edward. A Student 's History of the United States. Trans. Cunjian Zhang. 1st ed. Tianjin: Tianjin Faculty of Social Sciences, 2011. 8. Print. 23 Sept.
Miss Allen
English 3, Period 7
23 September 2015
The Life of a Greater Sailor In 1451, the birth of a son into a textile artisan’s family in Genoa, Italy marks the beginning of a new generation. The father, Domenico Columbus, and the mother, Susanna Fontanarossa, named this baby Christopher Columbus. As the eldest child in his family, Columbus is deemed by many as the most influential person in the world base on his pioneering travels, exploring and cartography. During Columbus’s childhood, he helped his family to weave cloth (Pennington). After years of effort and practice, the weave work made Columbus becomeore patient and grow both of his talent and operational ability, which laid a basis for him to draw the compass map. Genoa …show more content…
He worked as an agent for the Spinolas, Di Negros, and Centuriones which had the most powerful Genoese among all commercial families (Mangin). In the mid-1470 's, Columbus attended in a trading expedition to the island of Chios, a Genoese possession in the Aegean Sea (Mangin). In 1476, he lived in a Genoese colony in Lisbon, Portugal (Edward 8). According to legend, he went to Portugal by swimming ashore holding onto an oar after being attacked by pirates In Lisbon, Columbus drew and sold maps with his brother Bartholomew (Mangin). Later, his father failed in business and died (Pennington). This huge calamity made Columbus lose confidence in business and made him put all focus on the sea. When it was possible for him to become a sailor, he left the land and started his life on the sea. As a sailor, he visited many countries, such as Spain, England, France and others. While sailing, he gained a lot of precious experience of drawing maps as …show more content…
The route connected the new land and the old land contact together. His discovery marked the beginning of a Navigation Time and changed the progress of history; Christopher Columbus was an outstanding navigator and an influential person of the world.
Works Cited
Pennington, Ken. "Voyages of Christopher Columbus." Web. 23 Sept. 2015. Mangin, Julie. "1492: An Ongoing Voyage Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth." Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
"1492: An Ongoing Voyage Inventing America." Inventing America. Web. 23 Sept. 2015. Channing, Edward. A Student 's History of the United States. Trans. Cunjian Zhang. 1st ed. Tianjin: Tianjin Faculty of Social Sciences, 2011. 8. Print. 23 Sept.