The Islands Christopher Columbus explored was Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas.
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.
Christopher Columbus discovered the 'New World' now known as America.
Dominican Rebublic,San Salvador and other Carribean Islands.
On his voyage to Spain to India he was willing to find India. They thought there was no north America so the tried to go to India by turning left. Instead they bumped to a unknown part of North America. They Called The people that lived there were called Indians because Columbus thought That were in India. Columbus never knew for his whole life that he was in a unknown part of North America. Those People that Columbus Thought were Indians were actually first A Nations. He never knew for his whole life that those were first a nations.
The islands Columbus visited in the Caribbean are called the west indies.
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.
Christopher Columbus discovered the 'New World' now known as America.
He called them Indians.
Christopher Columbus. He thought he had reached India and named the island "Indies" and called its inhabitants, "Indians". Later Amerigo Vespucci proved that Colombus had actually found the New Lands, and not India. The island was then renamed "West Indies".
Christopher Columbus
Dominican Rebublic,San Salvador and other Carribean Islands.
Columbus reached all the major islands of the caribbean and Honduras in Central America which he called the Indies
On his voyage to Spain to India he was willing to find India. They thought there was no north America so the tried to go to India by turning left. Instead they bumped to a unknown part of North America. They Called The people that lived there were called Indians because Columbus thought That were in India. Columbus never knew for his whole life that he was in a unknown part of North America. Those People that Columbus Thought were Indians were actually first A Nations. He never knew for his whole life that those were first a nations.
The islands Columbus visited in the Caribbean are called the west indies.
He landed on an island called Hispaniola and thought he had landed in India. He never found the mainland of North America. He also explored Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba. He explored the Caribbean Sea.
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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.