Yi jie shi biography of christopher columbus
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Journal of World History
Haiwei Liu (劉海威) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University. His research interests include the history of middle period and late imperial China, the Mongol conquest in world history, and the history of Islam in China.
Footnotes
* I am grateful to Bettine Birge, Lina Nie, Yitian Li, Yung-chang Tung, Yuan-Heng Mao, and Penghao Sun for their valuable suggestions on this article. I also thank the reviewers of JWH for their incisive comments, which are very helpful for revising this article.
1. John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongols, in Mission to Asia, ed. Christopher Dawson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 3–79; Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 87–95.
2. William of Rubruck, The Journey of William of Rubruck, in Mission to Asian, 89–223. The Mongols and the West, 99–103.
3.Mission to Asia, xviii–xxi.
4. For the family background of Marco Polo, see John Larner, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 31–46.
5. Marco Polo, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, trans. and ed. Henry Yule, vol. 1 (London
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Christopher Columbus
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Introduction
Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator and adventurer who was born in the Republic of Genoa between August 25 and October 31, 1451. He made four remarkable journeys across the Atlantic Ocean under the patronage of the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Spain. These journeys marked the beginning of European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. The Latin Christophorus Columbus is the source of the English name Christopher Columbus. Columbus, who grew up on the coast of Ligurian, went to sea at an early age and made several trips from the British Isles to what is now Ghana. After being married to Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, he had Diego, a son. Columbus was primarily self-taught and had a solid understanding of history, astronomy, and geography. He sought to make money from the spice trade and was driven by a scheme to discover a western sea passage to the East Indies.
Following tenacious advocacy and the end of the Granada War, Columbus was able to obtain support from the Catholic Monarchs. He sailed in August of 1492 with three ships, arriving in the Americas on October 12 and bringing an end to the pre-Columbian period. Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas, was the locat