because he sailed across that body of water
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Columbus sailed across the Atlantic ocean. He was expected to sail to Asia, but he landed in America.
yes, it says after the santa maria (columbus' ship) hit a under water reef they shot it down with cannons -after everyone was off. They did this because columbus was too ashamed to see his ship destroyed.
He has a tomb in the Dominican Republic and another in the cathedral in Seville, Spain. No one is sure which body is really his.
a: the Pacific Ocean was named after Ferdinand Magellan the famous explorer.
You could say that. He chopped of body parts of Indians to prove that there were people in the new world, he hung people who did not listen to him and he traded broken glass and beads for gold which is a ripoff. Other than that, he was a good man.