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OCR: Christopher Columbus 145 1506) Columbus was an native inhabitants he encountered Italian born explorer who "Indians' because he believed he creditee with discovering had reached the Indies He died America With the financial unaware that he had found the backing of the Spanish King New World of the Americas Ferdinand and Oueen Isabella he sailed west across the Atlantic convinced he would find shorter route to the precious spices of the East Indies. But instead of reaching the East Indies he discovered the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (which he believed to be Japan) San Salvador, Honduras and Panama Columbus called the 1451 credited