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Comment Re:Quite Cool (Score 1) 347

And after that, even knowing that it was a new continent, he keeps calling it "Indias". That was because if that wasn't asia, then the deal making him Viceroy (Virrey de indias) was invalid. And that was the reason of the continent named after Americo, and not after Columbus (Colón). A sad history for a sad guy, with tons of luck.

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