FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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native people already living there.
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an empty deserted land.
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another explorer had already beat him to the New World and claimed it for China.
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the Fountain of Youth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really “discover” the so-called New World-millions of people already lived there-his journeys marked the beginning of centuries of exploration and colonization of North and South America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus referred to the native people living there as “Indians", believing he had actually reached “The Indies” in Asia. He continued to believe this until the end of his life. On 3rd August 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain with three ships. On 12th October 1492 the crew sighted land.
Detailed explanation-3: -After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia.
Detailed explanation-4: -On his second voyage in 1493, he sailed with seventeen ships and about 1200 men, arriving in Hispaniola in late November to find the fort of La Navidad destroyed with no survivors. Near its ruins, on the northern coast of the present-day Dominican Republic, he founded the short-lived town of Isabella.