Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer and cartographer, is credited for proving that Columbus had discovered a new continent. He conducted several voyages to the Americas and mapped the coastlines, ultimately demonstrating that Columbus had not reached Asia as originally believed.
Christopher Columbus wrote about his voyages to the new continent in his journal.
Columbus was trying to get to Asia by sailing west from Europe, but he ended up reaching the Americas instead in 1492.
The Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus. However, he believed these places were Asia. It was Amerigo Vespucci who pointed out that these were separate continents.
Columbus would have drawn North America on his map next to the Bahamas.
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Columbus landed on the American continent in Honduras
Christopher Columbus
there was another continent out there.
Europe, Spain.
He didn't because he never got to the continent. He was only in the Bahamas.
Probably the continent of Heaven, seeing he died in 1506.
When Columbus visited the Americas, he thought he had reached Asia.
Amerigo (or Americo) Vespucci. He realised that Columbus had in fact landed on a new continent. America was named after Vespucci :)
The continent Christopher Columbus think he reached is Asia.