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He didn't. The vikings sailed there almost 500 years earlier.
He did not plan on finding land he was trying to reach the indies/India for money. And he found. Trying to go past the world in a different way that most people would not try.
America was not found by Columbus. Columbus stumbled across the Western Hemisphere in 1492.

America was founded by a group of gentlemen we refer to as the founding fathers.

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9y ago

Columbus never landed any where on the North American continent. In the time of his explorations the United States did not exist and would not for another 290 years.

He made 4 trips landing on South and Central America on the last two.

He refused to believe that he did not find India. This is why the continents are named after Amerigo Vespucci

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14y ago

No he didn't. He found an island named Hispanolia and thought he had landed in India. He DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA.

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12y ago

Well, he heard from someone that he discovered gold at China, so he wanted to go to China nad get gold, but accidently he discovered America.

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13y ago

Columbus never did discover America. He found an island and never knew North America existed.

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