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Which country/continent was discovered by Christopher Columbus?

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South Africa
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South India
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South America
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South Sudan
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Solution

The correct option is C South America
Columbus is best known for the completion of four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that opened up the New World to further European conquest. Columbus originally embarked on the journey hoping to find a route west-ward towards India and the Far East in order to tap into the spice trade. Little did he know that he was in fact headed towards the Bahamas on his first voyage. To what extent he knew that the Americas and India were in two distinctly separate locations is still up for debate.

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