Answer:
He thought going west would be more quicker
Explanation:
The discovery of the sea route to India was made under the command of the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, but Colombo did not like to follow the route discovered by the Portuguese because he believed that the west established the fastest way to reach the Indies
In this context, we can conclude that Columbus did not "discover" America, for when he arrived in the Caribbean, which he thought was India, there were about nine million natives in the Western Hemisphere. These, however, had no idea that there was an eastern hemisphere, just as the Europeans did not even suspect the existence of a continent to the west.
