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The Native Americans. They were there WAY before Columbus! There generations were passed from they Inuit's, to they Eskimo's, to the plains Indians to the American Indians or something like that! So Columbus was TECHNACALY NOT the first one in America! We need to STOP giving Columbus SO much credit! either way, hope they answer helps!

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2 explorers were before Christophor Columbus

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Vikings from Scandinavia

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Where did Columbus believe himself to be when he reached the new world?

India


Islands of the new world first reached by Columbus in 1492?

Bahamas


What did Columbus do when he reached the new world?

Thought he was in India, was intrigued by the people there, and then slaughter them.


Did Columbus believe that he had reached orient and not a new world Is this true or false?

It is true.


What conclusion did Vespucci form about the lands that he Columbus and caboto had reached?

the conclusion that Vespucci had formed about the lands that he, Columbus, and Cabato had reached is that the land he, Columbus, and cabato had reached was not Asia. The land that they had found had to be another Continent.....the "new world" that some Europeans thought might be there.


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Who discovered the new world?

Christopher Columbus reached North America in 1492 and came back to Spain to report his discovery and so alerted Europe to the New World and began a fury of voyages of exploration and the founding of settlements by Spain , Portugal, the Netherlands, France and England. Viking ships had reached North America before Columbus but this information was not known in Europe outside of Scandinavia.


Why did Columbus call the people he found in the land discovered Indians?

Because he erroneously believed that he had reached India by sailing west from the Old World. Columbus had no idea that he had actually landed in the New World.


Did Spain know that the new world existed before they sent Columbus?

no


Did the Africans come to the new world before Columbus?

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What happened during Christopher Columbus's life?

The battle with the muslin moors in Granada the same year he reached the new world.


Where did Columbus think he had landed when he reached the Americas?

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