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It was five hundred years later, when the need for increased trade and error in navigation led Christopher Columbus to land on a small island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea, which he named San Salvador. He thought he had discovered a new way to Indies, he never knew he had discovered a new continent. Columbus wanted to find a new route to the Far East. In India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands he could get valuable silks and spices. He knew the world was round. He believed that by sailing 4,000 miles (6,400 km) west from Europe, instead of east route around the coast of Africa, he could reach the Far East. Columbus got support from Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Spain. In 1492 he set sail from Palos, Spain with three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.