USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Columbus died in 1506, still believing that he had found a new route to the East Indies . Today his historic legacy as a daring explorer who ‘discovered’ the New World has been challenged. His voyages launched centuries of European exploration and colonisation of the American continents.

Detailed explanation-2: -He also explored the Central and South American coasts. But he didn’t reach North America, which, of course, was already inhabited by Native Americans, and he never thought he had found a new continent.

Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus believed that he was in Asia, but was actually in the Caribbean. He even proposed that the island of Cuba was a part of China. Since he thought he was in the Indies, he called the native people “Indians.” In several letters he wrote back to Spain, he described the landscape and his encounters with the natives.

Detailed explanation-4: -After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia.