Five Little Known “Facts” About Christopher Columbus In October
of 1492, as every child is taught in school, Christopher
Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. He was
granted the ability to come to America by King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella of Spain. But is that how everything really
happened? Most of us aren’t told about the real Christopher
Columbus. Here are five things you might not have known about
this famous explorer. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE MAN Columbus may
have been born in Genoa. No one really knows, but the name we
know him as is an English version of the name. The Genoese knew
him as, Chrisoffa Corombo. He was born around 1451 and went to
sea at the age of ten. Columbus worked for some wealthy
businessmen and it is known that he traveled to the Aegean Sea,
England, Ireland and Iceland – where he may have heard rumor of
lands to the west. THE MOMENT IN TIME While we have often heard
that people thought the earth was flat in Columbus’ day and that
he convinced the royalty of Spai