________ was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now Italy.
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On October 12, 1492, after 36 days of sailing westward across the ________, Columbus and several crewmen set foot on an island in the present- day Bahamas, claiming it for Spain.
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Christopher Columbus
________ was an Italian explorer and navigator.
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Columbus
________ first went to sea as a teenager, participating in several trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
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