Christopher ... Columbus made his way to Spain, where he gained support from the Spanish monarchy. He persuaded King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to sponsor his quest to find a westward route ...

In 1492, he led an expedition backed by Spain’s Catholic Monarchs seeking to establish a new route to the ... his breakthrough voyage. Another hypothesis proposes that Columbus was a Jew from ...

Scientists have solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher ... said. Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, from ...