The answer is money. It was believed that if they found a shorter way to Asia that they could access the trading market more easily and avoid middle-men and things like that. They could open companies there and trade for much less money and earn much more. However, he ended up in the Americas, not India.
        
             
        
        
        
I believe that was the Crusades.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
They thought it would be over by Christmas
        
             
        
        
        
<span>n creating a new U.S. government, the Virginia plan was proposed.</span>
        
                    
             
        
        
        
All of the following developments in Germany during the 1930s (the construction of fortifications along the Rhine River, the annexation of Austria, and the resumption of the military draft to create a large army) were violations of the Treaty of Versailles, except D) the return of the Saarland to German control.