Vasco Da Gama was the first explorer to make a complete journey to India. He was Portugese and left in 1497 with three ships under his command. He sailed on the water for eleven months( versus three months for Columbus) when he finally made it to the Indian city of Calicut( not to be confused with Calcutta, which was the city's enemy at the time.
Columbus hoped to reach America by sailing west from Europe. After carrying out a brief fact finding tour in America, he arranged a second voyage back.
1492 is important in American history because that is the year that christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas and discovered them. there is a well known saying: in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue
Leif Ericson might have traveled to Baffin Island, Canada around AD 1000. However, European exploration of America effectively started with Christopher Columbus, a Genoan sailing under the flag of Spain, in 1492.
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Because he erroneously believed that he had reached India by sailing west from the Old World. Columbus had no idea that he had actually landed in the New World.
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He never reached Asia. He accidentally discovered the Americas.
he though the could reach Asia by sailing west because he thought the world was three thirds of its actual size and he did not know America was here.
Christopher Columbus was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west.
Christopher Columbus felt that a sailing ship could reach Asia within two months. He did believe that this was something that could only be accomplished however with favorable winds.
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