Like I say, I think Ferdinand and Isabella funded the mission hoping he’d die of scurvy 9,000 miles off shore so he’d quit bothering them. It just so happened that approximately where he extremely wrongly calculated India to be sat the islands of the Caribbean, and a bunch of people who had no idea what cosmic anvils were about to descend from on high upon them.
Like I say, I think Ferdinand and Isabella funded the mission hoping he’d die of scurvy 9,000 miles off shore so he’d quit bothering them. It just so happened that approximately where he extremely wrongly calculated India to be sat the islands of the Caribbean, and a bunch of people who had no idea what cosmic anvils were about to descend from on high upon them.