He never got close to what is now called the United States. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. What Columbus "discovered" was the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Until his death he claimed to have landed in Asia, even though most navigators knew he didn't. If Columbus discovered America, he himself didn't know. And let's ignore that whole Leif Ericson voyage to Greenland and modern-day Canada around 1000 C.M.E. Yes, let's ignore the fact that millions of humans already inhabited this land later to be called the Americas, having discovered it millennia before. His crew wasn't nervous about falling off the Earth. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.The Columbus flat-earth myth perhaps originated with Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus there's no mention of this before that. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account
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