Literally every sentence here is false, especially the claim the POPE sent Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were not the Pope. Please change your name to Fake Indology https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1183694911435984896 …
The biggest misunderstanding about Columbus is that he was looking for India, a country Europeans knew to be densely urbanized and literate and somehow mistook the Caribbean Islands for it. He in fact was looking for the Indies (Indonesia), the ultimate source of spice.