Which answer matches this clue: the Genoese navigator whose 1492 voyage across the Atlantic opened the Americas to European colonisation?

• A Amerigo Vespucci
• B Vasco da Gama
• C Christopher Columbus ✓
• D Ferdinand Magellan

Christopher Columbus, born in the Republic of Genoa, sailed for Spain and made four voyages to the Americas between 1492 and 1504.