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Question MC 5-1. Correct. Here is the text reference:

The navigator we know as Christopher Columbus was born to a poor family in Genoa, Italy, probably in 1451. Genoa was an important trading and shipping center where the young Columbus undoubtedly met navigators and map-makers who fueled his fascination with the sea. He left Genoa at an early age, and following a series of adventures ended up in Portugal, where he learned the latest developments in navigation from the experts gathered by Prince Henry the Navigator. It was here that Columbus developed his notion of opening up a trade route to India by sailing west instead of east, as the Portuguese favored. Although Columbus' idea was basically sound, he grossly underestimated the size of the earth, and thus the distance from the Iberian Peninsula to Japan or India by the western route. He also, of course, knew nothing of the continent that lay between Europe and the Far East.