As everyone knows, being in the car for 10 minutes is not a big deal â but a 10 hour drive will suck the life out of you. That means we all use time to understand distance. Buffalo is an hour away from where I live in Rochester. New York City, however, is 5 1/2 hours.
Columbus' intention was to reach the Indies, this is actually how  Indians A.K.A. native Americans received their names.Columbus  thought they were from the Indies so he calâ¦led them Indians.   His purpose for going to the Indies was to prove that their was a  faster route that Spain could use to trade with them.
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. For nearly five months, Columbus explored the Caribbean, particularly the islands of Juana (Cuba) and Hispaniola (Santo Domingo), before returning to Spain.