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alina1380 [7]
3 years ago
11

Why did the European explorers call the Americas the “New World”?

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Gwar [14]3 years ago
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In 1942, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean, unlocking what Europeans quickly came to call the “New World”. Columbus “found” a land with around two million inhabitants. He thought he had found a new route to the East, so he mistakenly called these people “Indians”.
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