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Christopher Columbus discovers what he thought was India, but turned out to be what is now called the Bahamas. Image found at: http://blogs.townonline.com/brookline/?p=14681
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Landing on what is now the two nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Columbus explored the Carribean Islands. Columbus named another island San Juan Bautista after St. John the Baptist, but it was later named Puerto Rico.
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Bartholomew Columbus, brother to Christopher, founded Santo Domingo
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Columbus led an expedition to explore Central America and the Onrico River in South America.
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Amerio Vespucci explored South America.
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Vespucci realized that South America was not part of Asia, as previously believed.
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Columbus mapped the American coastline
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Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida; Vasco de Balboa reached the Pacific coast
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Ferdinand Magellan discovered the straight at the southernmost tip of South America.
