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Christopher Columbus called the Bahamas the East Indies because he thought he reached the land east of India. He didn't know North and South America were even there. His original idea was that he was going to prove that the earth was round and sail around it. When he landed in the Bahamas, he thought that he was in the east, meaning east of India.

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He went to the Bahamas because he thought he was going to what theEuropeans called the Indies in Asia. They wanted gold, silk, and and other things from the Indies. They didn't even know about North America.

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He sailed west accross Atlantic assuming that he would reach Asia and the East Indies from the opposite direction to that normally travelled. He had both underestimated the size of the earth and did not know that a huge land mass (America) and other islands lie in between his intended route.

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The Commonwealth of the Bahamas since 1973 when the islands gained their independence from the UK. Previously its official name had been the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands (1969--73). The name is said to mean 'Shallow Sea' from the Spanish baja mar although there is some doubt about this; it is probably derived from a much older Lucayan word. Inhabited originally by the Lucayans, one of the Bahama islands (possibly San Salvador Island, Cat Island, or Samana Cay) was where Christopher Columbus† first 'discovered' the New World on 12 October 1492. The Spanish did not try to settle, English migrants from Bermuda being the first Europeans to establish a colony in 1649. In 1717 the islands became a British crown colony and remained so until 1973.

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Christopher Columbus didn't mean to go to the bahamas. He mistaked them for India when he travelled west from Spain

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To find the far East.

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because he saw Indians on his voyage

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to get to India

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