2006-10-03 11:45:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
to search for trade routes and people to trade goods with...
2006-10-03 11:46:52 · answer #1 · answered by Marvin C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Europe had long enjoyed safe passage to China and India— sources of valued goods such as silk and spices — under the hegemony of the Mongol Empire (the Pax Mongolica, or "Mongol peace"). With the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslims in 1453, the land route to Asia was no longer an easy route. Portuguese sailors took to travelling south around Africa to get to Asia. Columbus had a different idea. By the 1480s, he had developed a plan to travel to the Indies (then construed roughly as all of south and east Asia) by sailing directly west across the "Ocean Sea" (the Atlantic).
2006-10-03 11:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two possibilities:
1) The first one says that Christopher Columbus wanted to demonstrate that the Earth was round, not flat, as many suppossed during these times.
2) The second, and most acceptable: he wanted to discover a new route to the Indies to assure efficiency and quickness in the commerce between Spain and this country. Evidently, looking for this new route, he arrived to what we know nowadays as America.
2006-10-03 11:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by Smurfette 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He made voyages to the New World with the hope to find a definite route to China.
2006-10-03 11:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Boricua 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the black comedian, Flip Wilson, Columbus was searching for Ray Charles.
2006-10-05 06:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking for a trading route to India after Constantinople was blocked to westerns.
2006-10-03 11:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by St.Anger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well at first he though he was sailing to India because he wanted a faster way to get there for trade and such. He didnt even know that he had found a new piece of land when he got there. He was thrown off by a storm and landed there by accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
2006-10-03 11:48:44 · answer #7 · answered by Katie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To discover alternate route from europe to India. India was one of the richest country that time.
2006-10-03 11:47:54 · answer #8 · answered by Show Me Sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To open a new trade route to the East Indies...
2006-10-03 11:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To find a shorter route to Asia.
2006-10-03 11:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by rhblong2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋