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Why are the west indies called the west indies?
The term "West Indies" came about when Christopher Columbus set out on a voyage to Asia to get to India rather than going east to avoid the moors with whom the Europeans were at war with, under the...
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Why is West Indies called West Indies?
The direction refers to the direction that one must travel FROM EUROPE to arrive. You must go west to the West Indies and east to the East Indies. Before Columbus' discovery he was trying to find a...
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What part of the West Indies was the West Indies Federation in?
The Federation consisted of ten territories, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, the then St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago....
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Why is the West Indies called the West Indies?
Because Columbus was trying to find a new route to India by traveling West rather than South, long story short he ended up in the wrong place and called it the West Indies
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What was shipped from West Africa to the west indies?
the boat