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On Columbus first voyage he was looking for an ocean route to Asia(that would be shorter/safer than traveling by land.....he landed in the Caribbean on an island in the Bahamas that he named San Salvador..found people there that he called Indians because he thought he had landed in Indies(called them Indians)......saw them wearing gold and other items......Columbus made them take him to what is known as Cuba where he found gold and spices that he took back to Spain in 1493......

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