The Past Simple - regular verbs/ to be (New Ace2.1)

Christopher Columbus ... (to be) an Italian explorer and navigator.

He ... (to complete) four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.

Thanks to those voyages, Spain ... (to start) its colonisation of the New World.

Many European countries ... (to want) to find new sea routes to India.

Columbus ... (to suggest) sailing west to reach Japan.

He ... (to receive) the help of the Spanish King for this adventure.

Columbus ... (to try) it.

He ... (to succeed), or at least, that's what he thought ...

During his first voyage in 1492, instead of arriving in Japan, he ... (to land) in the New World, on an island in the Bahamas.

He ... (to name) this island 'San Salvador'.