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Columbus's greatest adventure was to America. He said he discovered it when actully Vikings got there over 500 years before he did.
He didn't discover America. Leif Erikson, a viking, discovered America. He said there 500 years before columbus.
Columbus said the earth was sphere when he traveled to America
Columbus is credited with making the European discovery of America, of which Panama is a part. So in a sense he can be said to have discovered Panama. However, Columbus never traveled to the lands that are now part of Panama
This is Christopher Columbus (though he did not discover America, as there had been several "discoveries" starting with the original Native Americans).
Columbus is credited with making the European discovery of America, of which Canada is a part. So in a sense he can be said to have discovered Canada as part of his discovery of America, generally. However, Columbus never traveled to the lands that are now part of Canada.
because he was the first one to step foot on America besides the native Americans and said he discovered it.
Columbus is credited with making the European discovery of America, of which the USA is a part. So in a sense he can be said to have discovered the USA . However, Columbus never traveled to any of the lands that are now part of the United States of America.
Africa is a huge continent. A small part of it is in the Middle East, but certainly not all of it. Africa spreads across the equator, so it cannot be said to be in the southeast of anywhere.
It would be most difficult to determine which explorer discovered the most land. However, Christopher Columbus discovered lands in Central America which is connected to both North and South America. So, it could be said that he "discovered" two continents that were previously unknown.
Since Columbus always believed he had found a way to the Indies and never considered that he might have found an "undiscovered" continent, if he crew had told someone that he didn't discover America, he would have said they were telling the truth.
Columbus is credited with making the European discovery of America, of which Florida is a part. So in a sense he can be said to have discovered Florida . However, Columbus never traveled to the lands that are now part of Florida, so he did not discover Florida in the specific sense of being the first European to set foot there.