Did Christopher Columbus sail to the West or North?

Answer 1

He should have sailed west or else he probably couldn't have sailed AROUND the world. He sailed west to find a route to Asia, and to prove that when you go west, you can hit Asia, to prove the world was round, i think. Then he hit America, naming the Native Americans "Indians" because he thought he was already in Asia.

Answer 2

Columbus sailed WEST into the Atlantic Ocean (actually southwest then west), hoping to reach Asia. Europeans did not know of the existence of the Americas or the Pacific Ocean, which made Asia much farther away than some cartographers had calculated. The few previous visits to North America (by the Vikings) were only marginally recorded.

Answer 3

North