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Columbus signs the capitulation of Santa Fe with the Catholic Monarchs, which indicates the conditions of the voyage.
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The first trip was on August 3, 1492. -
Columbus believed he had found a new route to India, and described the people he met as “Indians.” -
Columbus and part of his crew return to Spain with the news of the discovery of India (America)
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The name of the continent was given in 1507, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who was the first to realize that the discovered lands belonged to a new world.
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