Columbus

Coumbus was a boatman.  When he was young a pirate ship attacked him.  He floated to shore on a piece of wood.  He floated to Portugal.  Portugal was good at boating and he learned from them.  He became a god boatman and a sea captain.  He wanted to go on trip but he didn't have the money, so he begged the king and queen of Spain.  They kept saying no because they had been in a war and didn't have much money.  But finally after a few years they agreed and he got the money.  He got three ships called the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria.  He left.  He was trying to get to India but he was going west instead of around Africa.  He went to an island and he saw some people there and he called them Indians because he thought he was in India, but he wasn't.  He went back to Spain and they thought he was amazing.  He went back three times still trying to get to India, but he didn't ever get there.  Columbus discovered a new land.  It wasn't really India.  It was America.