On an island he named "San Salvador" somewhere in the modern day Bahamas. One location (Cat Island) was renamed San Salvador, but in 1925 this name was given to a different island (Watlings Island) based on the reexamination of historical evidence.
Columbus's initial 1492 voyage came at a critical time of growing national Imperialism and economic competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In this sociopolitical climate, Columbus's far-fetched scheme won the attention of Isabella I of Castle. Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, he estimated that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the lucrative spice trade - heretofore commanded by the Arabs and Italians. Following his plotted course, he instead landed within the Bahamas Archipelago at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the lands he encountered for the East Indies, he referred to the inhabitants as "indios".
India, this is why Native Americans are called Indians. Columbus made a rather bad mistake is his distance calculations.
There are a lot of arguments about where Columbus landed first. It was for sure an island near San Salvador and Cuba, though.
the Bahamas :D
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1492 was the year Christopher Columbus came to the Americas.
October 12, 1492.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand what was Christopher Columbus's salary in 1492/
He went exploring in 1492 - 1504
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1492
1492 was the year Christopher Columbus came to the Americas.
in 1492
October 12, 1492.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand what was Christopher Columbus's salary in 1492/
Oct. 12, 1492
he found United States not Asia