USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Following his birth in Genoa in 1451, and his mercantile and maritime activities in the Mediterranean as a youth, Christopher Columbus moved to Portugal in the mid-1470s. The decade that he lived in Portugal was arguably the most important formative period of his life.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to this version, Columbus would have been called Salvador Fernandes Zarco, and been born in the town of Cuba, in Portugal’s Alentejo region. As an adult, he became a captain and spied on Castile on behalf of King John II of Portugal.

Detailed explanation-3: -He left Portugal for Castile in 1485, where he found a mistress in 1487, a 20-year-old orphan named Beatriz Enríquez de Arana.