Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in ____. He began travelling on Italian ships at the age of ____.When he was ____, he read a book by a famous traveller Marco Polo. Columbus was very excited by Polo’s book and decided to become a great traveller, too. In 1476, his ship first went into the ____. Christopher Columbus wanted to find a new way to ____. He didn’t want to go around Africa so he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave him money and the ships: the ____ and two smaller ones, the “Nina” and the “Pinta”. The ____ ships left Spain and went west on ____ 3, 1492. The travellers didn’t see land for a month. They wanted to go back to Spain when, finally, on October 12, 1492, they saw it. Columbus thought it was India, so he called the native people Indians, but Columbus wasn’t in India. The land was America or the New World. All in all, Christopher Columbus travelled ____ times to America. This was an important event in the history of the world. In many countries, people celebrate Columbus Day on the second Monday ____

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