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Columbus did NOT discover America. He found an island he called Hispaniola and never made it to America. It is a fable that he discovered it.
The people looked different, and the stuff he traded was different too.
Columbus was looking for a water route to Asia and found an island called Hispaniola He thought until the day he died he had found India. Too many people THINK he discovered Amercia.HE DID NOT. HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT WAS THERE.
It took Christopher Columbus a total of four voyages spanning from 1492 to 1502 to realize that he had not discovered a direct sea route to Asia. Instead, he had stumbled upon the Americas.
He was trying to reach the "Indies", the spice islands of east Asia. He didn't realize that there were a couple of continents and another large ocean in the way.
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Columbus did NOT discover America. He found an island he called Hispaniola and never made it to America. It is a fable that he discovered it.
he thought he had reached India
I think it was Vespucci
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yes and no in some ways because he didn't discover anything but he was the first person to realize the the area that Christopher Columbus discovered was actually a new continent not china
The people looked different, and the stuff he traded was different too.
Columbus was looking for a water route to Asia and found an island called Hispaniola He thought until the day he died he had found India. Too many people THINK he discovered Amercia.HE DID NOT. HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT WAS THERE.
They were called Indians by the Spanish in the mistaken belief that they (the Spanish) were colonizing India. They didn't realize, at first, that they have discovered a new continent.
It took Christopher Columbus a total of four voyages spanning from 1492 to 1502 to realize that he had not discovered a direct sea route to Asia. Instead, he had stumbled upon the Americas.
He was trying to reach the "Indies", the spice islands of east Asia. He didn't realize that there were a couple of continents and another large ocean in the way.
Who is credited with being the first to realize that Columbus had discovers