FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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mapmakers
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blacksmith
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boat builder
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He eventually left his father’s business to join the Genoese fleet and sail on the Mediterranean Sea. After one of his ships wrecked off the coast of Portugal, he decided to remain there with his younger brother Bartholomew where he worked as a cartographer (mapmaker) and bookseller.
Detailed explanation-2: -After surviving a shipwreck off Cape Saint Vincent at the southwestern point of Portugal in 1476, he based himself in Lisbon, together with his brother Bartholomew. Both were employed as chart makers, but Columbus was principally a seagoing entrepreneur.
Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus is thought to have been guided by a copy of the 1491 map of the world, created by German cartographer Henricus Martellus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant, is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. When he was still a teenager, he got a job on a merchant ship. He remained at sea until 1476, when pirates attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast.