Wiwat kongrasri biography of christopher columbus

Christopher Columbus, commonly rendered in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón ( - May 20, ) was a Genoese-born navigator, explorer, and colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in , in search of a direct sea route to the Indies, established permanent European contact with the unknown lands and peoples of North and South America.

Columbus' voyage, combining audacious confidence, supreme seamanship, and an explicit faith that he was called by God for the task of bringing the Christian religion to remote peoples of the world—his name meant "Christ-bearer"—inaugurated the most profound advances in humankind's awareness of the planet, and formative interchanges among disparate cultures that would lead to the emergence of the modern world.

Columbus' voyage took place during the early de