Ist das richtiges englisch ??????Übersetzung von Deutsch nach EnglischGenoese sailors in the service of Spain, is considered the discoverer of America (after the Vikings around 1000 AD), between 26 * 8th and 31 10th Genoa 1451, † 21 5th Valladolid 1506.
Columbus put the discoverer of America (1492) not only laid the foundation for the Spanish colonization of Central and South America, but also created the conditions for the Europeanisation of the world and the expansion of international trade relations. He brought not the hoped-for treasure from the Spanish court from the New World and did not find the sea route to India, but he changed the world through his discoveries and the long-term course of world history.
Since early youth, Columbus traveled the seas. Inspired by the Florentine astronomer P. Toscanelli (* 1397, † 1482), he pursued the plan to find across the Atlantic to the western sea route to India, because for the Orient trade as an important land link between Europe and India was blocked by the Ottoman Empire. After the Portuguese King John II, he could not win for his plan, he moved to Spain about 1485 and found the support of Isabella of Castile, who took over the financing of the trip.