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Queen Isabella, who sponsored Columbus' voyage, told him to befriend the natives and convert them to Christianity. He failed.

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His goal was to go to India. Instead, he discovered America.

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To sail from Spain to Japan by going west instead of east.

(He had "calculated" that the trip would be in the neighborhood of 3000 to 4000 miles. He had a lot of bad data.)

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Columbus was looking for India.

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