Christopher Columbus was born between 25 August and 31 October 1451 in Genoa ,Italy. His father was Domenico Clombo, a middle-class wool weaver. In may 1476 he took part in an armed convoy sent by Genoa to carry a valuable cargo to nothern Europe. He docked in Bristol, England, Galway, Ireland and in Iceland. He first married with Filipa Moniz Perestrello 1478 but Filipa died in 1485 so Columbus may have simply left his wife. Later in 1487 he found a mistress Beatriz Enriquez de Arana. Europe had long enjoyed a safe passage to China and India to tranport goods as silk ,spices,opiates etc .But later the land route to asia under the hegemony of the Mongol Empire became more difficult.Than his brother and friends had developed a plan to travel to the Indies, then construed roughly as all of south east Asia, by sailing directly west across the Atlantic Ocean. At that time Europians thought Earth was flat but Christopher believed that the Earth was spherical and small and can easilly reached to Asia by crossing Atlantic Ocean .He made a four trips to find the route to india from west during 1492-1504.In first trip on october 11,1492 he landed off southeastern North America and named San Salvador (Cuba).On a second ,larger expedition with 17 ships and about 1500 men he return Cuba to find gold and capture the Indies and other small islands. On third expedition he set foot foot on the mailland of Amrica.On fourt trip he sailed to Mexico, Honduras ,Panama, Santiago.His conquests included Anatolia, Syria, Phonicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and heextended the boundaries of his own empire as far as Punjab,India.At last he return from india on the way to Babylon june 323 BC, he died at the age of 32 in the place of Nebuchadnezzar II.
