Islands off the coast of India
Columbus sailed across the Atlantic ocean. He was expected to sail to Asia, but he landed in America.
Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492. He never landed on the mainland of North America. He visited South America in 1498, and Central America in 1502, after which he was stranded for nearly a year on the island of Jamaica in 1503.
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to discover America. In 1492, he set sail on an expedition funded by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. Columbus was searching for a new route to Asia but instead landed in the Caribbean, believing he had reached the East Indies.
India
Columbus sailed across the Atlantic ocean. He was expected to sail to Asia, but he landed in America.
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492. He never landed on the mainland of North America. He visited South America in 1498, and Central America in 1502, after which he was stranded for nearly a year on the island of Jamaica in 1503.
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to discover America. In 1492, he set sail on an expedition funded by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. Columbus was searching for a new route to Asia but instead landed in the Caribbean, believing he had reached the East Indies.
India
It is Christopher Columbus, who sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two.Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492. He came to a land where people didn't know who he was. But they gave him treasures. Christopher Columbus was trying to find Asia and he landed in North America.
He thought he was traveling to the Indies, but he landed in the Bahamas. He also traveled to Cuba.
Christopher Columbus discovered America on Thursday, October 11
In 1492 Columbus sailed to find a northwest route to Asia, but he found the Bahamas. He never landed in North America nor knew it existed.
Columbus was in search for an easier trade route to India. He thought that if he sailed west that he would find it. When he landed in America he thought, for a time, that he really was in India. That is why he named the natives "Indians".
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