CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

you studied at school that cristopher columbus, a Genoese, discovered Amercia on october 12, 1492, sailing with three ships called Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. You know that he sailded under the Spanish flag, and that Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand were his patrons. And you also learned that he made four trips to the New World

Cristóvão Colombo

você estudou na escola que Cristóvão Colombo, um genovês, descobriu Amercia em 12 de outubro de 1492, navegando com três navios chamados de Santa Maria, Pinta e Nina. Você sabe que ele sailded sob a bandeira espanhola, e que a Rainha Isabel eo Rei Ferdinand foram seus patronos. E você também aprendeu que ele fez quatro viagens ao Novo Mundo

But did you know:

-that Columbus was of a Spanish-Jewish family? And that he did'nt like Genoa?

-that he discovered America by profecy and not by astronomy or geography?

-that he concluded that the world was round by reading the Bible, especially Isaias 11:10-12 and Ezra?

-that he mixed upgeography and cartographi information with a fertile imagination,thinking that India was close to Jerusalem?

-that Jerusalem need to be freed and that he was the man to free Jerusalem; that he thought he had found the river Ganges?

-that Columbus was a good admiral but a bad governor, that he frequently disobeyed the orders of King Ferdinand; that hundreds of men ( Spanish and Indians ) were killed on his orders?

-that he took almost one thousand slaves among indians and sent them to Spain?

-that on his voyage, he almost reached the Amazon?

-that he was very white, tal and red-haired, and that his thougt and writings often came close to insanity?