ответить на вопросы. 1.who discovered america? when? 2.where was christopher columbus born? 3.what do you know about his relatives? 4.who sent him to india? why? 5.how many caravels did he have? 6.did they reach india? why not? 7.who were pilgrims? what did they want to do in new world? 8.where did they land? 9.what was "new england"?

1)Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
2)He was born in Italy.
3)His father and both grandfathers were cloth makers.
4)Most people in Columbus's days thought that the earth was flat and they did not believe that beyond the Atlantic Ocean lay India.
5) There were 3 caravels: the Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pinta.
6)Columbus thought 'that it must be India but it was not. It was a new land - a new continent.
7)Priests and missionaries came to bring the Christian religion to the Indians.
8) In 1620 on the ship "Mayflower" they landed in the north-east of America.
9.They set up a colony and called that part of the country "New England".