How Is Christopher Columbus Selfish

Christopher Columbus (Figure 1) was the explorer and navigator who discover the Americas to the medieval world. Columbus was born in 1451 BCE in Genoa to Domenico Columbus who was a middle class wool weaver. In his early life, Christopher Columbus worked with his dad, but eventually when he was a teenager he began to work for a sea merchant and remained at sea until 1476, during this time he studied maps and books which convinced him that he could reach land by sailing westward across the ocean. In 1476 he was shipwrecked but managed to float to shore. After being shipwrecked, Columbus made his way to Lisbon where his brother, who was an expert chart maker, lived. Columbus too became a chart maker for a small period of time. When he was 31-32