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He sailed across the ocean blue. In fourteen hundred and ninety-two.

Sailing for the king and queen of Spain, Italian-born Columbus was looking for a passage to China without going around the tip of Africa or across the Middle East on land. Using erroneous figures for the Earth's circumference, he thought that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic. As far as he knew, the giant ocean west of Europe and Africa was the same giant ocean that was east of China and Southeast Asia.

He ended up landing in the Americas, which he did not realize was a new world until much later. The islands of the Caribbean were eventually named the West Indies, a reference to the East Indies islands of Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Guinea.

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  • he decided to help the poor, so he set up a campaign! then he learnt to speak there language and the types of fun things they do!
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All of them kissed the floor and were glad they made it but they thought they reached India but it was America so dats y native Indians are called Indians

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he walked around the land to see if anyone was there and he walking around to explore around to see what is going on

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He found the cocoa beans in America and brought them back to England...but what he really wanted was to find and meet the west Indians.

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he found the native Americans

he thought he was in India

so he called them Indians

which is where the name came from

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Type your answer here... He said, I found it.!

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