... route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Archipelago of northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Navigators founded it in the 16th century. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He loved the sea and became a sailor at the age of fifteen years. Growing up, he had heard stories of Marco Polo and the Far East. Even though the rest of the world believed the world was flat, Columbus thought the world was ... navigational devices, so Columbus had to navigate by using the stars and the moon. Columbus and his crew sailed to the Canary Islands whe...

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