Childhood



Childhood
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Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Columbo was the name he was born with) was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. His father was Domenico Columbo who worked as a wool weaver and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa.His family was very poor, so Christopher spent a lot of his childhood looking after his four younger siblings while his mother and father worked long hard hours to provide for their family. Because he came from a poor family he did not recieve any education until he was fourteen years old. It is not completely proven what age he was when he first went to sea but it is said that he started his seas voyages around the age of 14 before eventually establishing a base in Portugal.