Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus Italian origin, in 1492, opened to Europeans Ameriku.Kolumb first of reliably known travelers crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the subtropical and tropical zone of the northern hemisphere and the first Europeans went to the Caribbean. He initiated the study of South and Central America. He opened all the Greater Antilles ostrova.Schitaetsya that Columbus was born in a wealthy Genoese family: his father - Domenico Colombo mother - Suzanne Fontanarossa.Uchilsya in Paviyskom University. Around 1470 he married Dona Felipe de Palestrello Moniz, daughter of Prince Henry the navigator times. To 1472, Columbus was living in Genoa, and from 1472 - in Savona. In 1470-ies involved in maritime trade expeditions.