The islands Columbus visited in the Caribbean are called the west indies.
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Christopher Columbus explored North America. He was actually trying to find India, however. This is the reason why Native Americans are called "Indians", because they were believed to be from India.
The Islands Christopher Columbus explored was Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas.
He landed in the Caribbean islands that are now called the West Indies.
Columbus called the Caribbean 'the new world' because he thought he'd discovered a new island, and built a city on it. but actually the native Americans were their first.
Columbus reached all the major islands of the caribbean and Honduras in Central America which he called the Indies
Columbus called these islands the Indiesbecause he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies). Spain, when Columbus' mistake was discovered, (pardon the pun) renamed them the West Indies, to distinguish them from the Spice Islands in the Pacific Ocean, (the East Indies) which we now call Indonesia.
Most of the Caribbean islands had indigenous people who lived on each island well before Columbus ever arrived. Each people had their name.
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the so-called "leeward" islands. Together with the so-called 'windward' islands further east they form the Caribbean islands.
Grenada is part of a chain of islands called? It is part of the Caribbean Islands.
The Caribbean Island are also known as the West Indies. This occurred when Columbus explored the area. He had believed he was exploring the East Indies. When he found this was not the case he called the islands the West Indies.
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Columbus explored the ares for several months, convinced he had found the East Indies, the islands off the coast of Asia.When finding it was not the east indies he named it the west indies.
Columbus explored the ares for several months, convinced he had found the East Indies, the islands off the coast of Asia.When finding it was not the east indies he named it the west indies.
Columbus explored the ares for several months, convinced he had found the East Indies, the islands off the coast of Asia.When finding it was not the east indies he named it the west indies.