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__**Christopher Kolumbus**__
- Here are few details about my live... I was born on the 30 of october 1451 in Genau that belongs to the republic of Genoa and I died in may 20 th 1506 in Valladoid. I got burried in the cathedreal of Sevilla. I was growing up in a family with enough money because my father was a weaver. My father was called Domencio Colombo my mother was called Susanna Fontanarossa and my sister was called Bianchinettamy and my brothers were called: Bartolomeo, Giacomo and Pellegrino. When i found america i wanted to

- I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways... that i found america. And it could be colonized after i found it wich wasn but i wasn't the first one who was on america already 500 years before he made the first step on america the island was already found by Leif Eriksson and some indians.

-I think these contributions were particularly important because...so big shipps were build to go to america this help the ship industrie and a nother reason is that new matirials from america. Also after i found america everybody belived that the world is round and not that it is a plate like the church tolled them

-The picture shown here is of..spanish settlers sailing to america to colonize it... which helps to show that...after i foun america hole of eurpe whanted to have a bit of the new country. Whith this the sailing was revolutionized.



-How I looked like

This is a picture of me from 1529-1530

-I got my ships to sail to america from the spanisch king. I got in contakt to the king through two spanisch popes.

this is a portrait from one of the popes

Information http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvm8WA0Y2N4 http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Christoph_Kolumbus.htm []

Pictures [] [|www.layline.de/geschichte/ Seekrieg_img_5.html]

I used a viedeo picture as a picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvm8WA0Y2N4