Their mission was simple, but possibly fraught with danger.
They had been tasked to find a western route to China and India.
The Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina sighted land on October 12, and as they continued exploring they believed they had found part of China and Japan.
In March 1943 they returned to Spain with "Indian" captives, gold, spices, and other wealth and novelties.
History would later show that they hadn't made it to Asia, but in fact an unmapped part of the world, which would later be called the Americas.
Columbus would make a total of four trips across the sea, never realizing the importance of his discovery.
For centuries the explorers were thought to be the first to discover the Americas, but eventually time would show that the Vikings had made it four to five hundred years before them, further north.
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