When at last they got well down the African coast it was thought that such a route was too long.
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Columbus (1492) then attempted to find a shorter way to Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean, and landed on some islands which he supposed to be the East Indies.
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The explorations of men who followed Columbus proved that a new continent had been discovered and that it blocked the way to India.
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The attempts to find a southwest passage or a northwest passage through our continent led to the exploration of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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The new world was called America, after the explorer Americus.
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