To be really fair, Columbus was searching for India when he first discovered America so I doubt he even knew what he had stumbled upon
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by dragonwriter on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:16PM
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IIRC, he continuously insisted that he had reached the ("East", as we now know them as a result of him being wrong) Indies, in fact.
>>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful
>>connection with the New World that would eventually tie
>>Europe to the Americas, but it is a misconception that he
>>was the first to “discover” America.
http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-...
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