Explorer, navigator, and colonizer
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist. Born in the Republic of Genoa, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the permanent European colonization of the Americas.
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