Actually, he didn’t intend to discover anything! He wanted to get to China, which he knew existed. The Americas and Caribbean islands just got in the way, and the fact that they had been “discovered” thousands of years earlier by their current inhabitants didn’t matter to him.
Actually, he didn’t intend to discover anything! He wanted to get to China, which he knew existed. The Americas and Caribbean islands just got in the way, and the fact that they had been “discovered” thousands of years earlier by their current inhabitants didn’t matter to him.