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Alinara [238K]
3 years ago
7

How did columbus decide that he could reach the indies by sailing west?

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1 answer:
o-na [289]3 years ago
7 0

Because the map in his time was wrong, China was thought to be farther east than it was, the Americas were not on the maps the combines Atlantic and Pacific was thought to be much narrower than they are.

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