what do you remember about the discoverer of america?

For many years people think that the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America. But other travelers had reached America before him. However, Christopher Columbus was the first western explorer who visited America. He left Spain on August 3, 1492. He arrived in Bahamas. But he thought that he had arrived in India. He called the people who lived there Indians. The continent was named after Amerigo Vespucci, who said that it was not India but another continent. That's why the continent was discovered by Christopher Columbus, but it was named by Amerigo Vespucci, America.