Christopher Columbus was a determined and adventurous Renaissance man who made multiple expeditions to explore new sea routes to Asia but instead reached the Americas. In 1492 he sailed from Spain and landed in the Bahamas, believing he had found Asia, and in 1493 he sailed from Spain again exploring the southern coast of Cuba and Venezuela, completing the first European explorations of the Americas. The presentation also briefly mentions Leonardo Da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Michelangelo but does not provide substantial details about them.