Born a son of wool workers, Christopher Columbus always saw himself working on water, so he turned to the sea as a young man. ... Christopher Columbus sailed from island to island, one of them know as the Bahamas and as the Caribbean looking for pearls gold, silver, spices and stones that he promise the Spanish patron but did not find that much. ...

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The most pivotal point of the Age of Exploration was the discovery of the New World by a one Christopher Colombus who sailed across the Atlantic searching for a new route to Asia but accidently landed in the Caribbean. ... By the early 16th century, the Prtugese had established a string of bases that formed a gateway between the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. The Portugese could now control all sea trade in the entire region. ...

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