Columbus'main goal in sailing west was
a to spread Christianity
b. to find a new route to India
c. to find new land across the ocean
d. to claim new land for Spain.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.