history: Columbus: in search of a patron

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Genoa

In Italian city-state, important trading center, and home of Columbus

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Apocrypha

A group of books that Roman Catholics, believe to be inspired by God. the books can be found in Catholic Bibles, placed between the last book of the Old Testament in the first book of the New Testament

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Hundred years’ war

A destructive series of wars from 1337 to 1453 between France and England. decades later neither could help fund Columbus in his quest. Even though the conflict lasted more than 100 years, they were still known as the Hundred Years’ War

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Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria

The name of the three ships Columbus took on his first voyage to the New World.

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Christopher Columbus

A skilled navigator from Genoa Italy, who wished to reach the island of East (the Indies) with the gospel and to find gold to help rebuild Jerusalem.