Most of the lands that Columbus had studied about in school, and most of the people he had heard about, were in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa.

The city of Genoa where Columbus lived was a very busy and a very rich city.

It was on the Mediterranean Sea, and many of the people who lived there were sailors who went in their ships on voyages to distant lands.

They sailed to other places on the Mediterranean Sea, which is a very large body of water, you know, and to England, to France, to Norway, and even as far away as the cold northern island of Iceland.

This was thought to be a great journey.
The time in which Columbus lived was not as nice a time as is this in which you live.