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Motive
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Find a shorter trade route to
Asia to bring back spices and riches to Spain
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Spread Christianity
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Personality Traits
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Smart-believed the world was
round
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Determined-worked hard at school
to learn how to navigate by the stars and how to sail
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Persistant-kept sailing, even
when he lost everything to pirates
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Determined-waited 7 years until
Spain could afford to send him on his journey
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Brave-willing to go into the
unknown, even though he was told by everyone that it was very dangerous
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Egotistical-wanted to be the
richest and mightiest seaman in the world
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Success
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Sailed across the Atlantic to
the New World
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Became a hero of Spain
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Failure
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Never found a trade route to
Asia
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He was not a good leader of
his men
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In his lifetime, no one
realized the importance of his discoveries
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| Changed the World |
- Helped to prove the
world was round
- Discovered a new land
- Led to a furious pace of
exploration, discovery and colonization of the New World by France,
England and Spain
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