Biography of spanish navigator of the Italian origin Christopher Kolumba. Search of sponsorship for the leadthrough of expedition to America. Acceding of trip of Kolumba to the Spanish crown. Opening of the American continent, creation of trade-routes.
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В These competing hypotheses have generally been discounted by mainstream scholars .Quest for financial support for a voyage Columbus traveled from Portugal to BOTHB GENOAB ANDB Venice, but he received encouragement from neither. Columbus had sought an audience from the MONARCHSB Ferdinand II of ARAGONB ANDB Isabella I of Castile, who had united many kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula by marrying, and were ruling together. However, to keep Columbus from taking his ideas elsewhere, and perhaps to keep their options open, THEB Catholic Monarchs gave him an annual allowance of 12,000В maravedis and, in 1489, furnished him with a letter ordering all cities and towns under their domain to provide him food and lodging at no cost.Agreement with the Spanish crown After continually lobbying at THEB Spanish court and two years of negotiations, he finally had success in January 1492. He and his sons, Diego and Fernando, then conducted a lengthy series of court cases against THEB Castilian crown, known as THEB pleitos colombinos , alleging that the Crown had illegally reneged on its contractual obligations to Columbus and his heirs. В Columbus" refusal to accept that the lands he had visited and claimed for Spain were not part of Asia might explain, in part, why the American continent was named after THEB Florentine explorer В Amerigo Vespucci and not after Columbus.Total Columbus made the voyage to America 4: Maiden voyage (August 2, 1492 - March 15, 1493).