When Columbus landed in America, the chief reason that he thought he had landed in "the Indies" was......?

Question

A. The great wealth of the native population?
B. the ease with which the natives understood his language
C. his discovery of the place of the Grand Khan
D. his firm belief that he had sailed far enough westward to reach them.

I think it's A.? Am I correct

Answer 1

D. Columbus had convinced himself through faulty mathematics and bad maps that the Earth was a third of the size that it is. Those that understood these thing knew quite well that the Earth was spherical and they also had a good idea how far east the "Indies" were, yes even in 1490.

The educated people did not believe the world was flat, whatever the illiterate 80 - 90% of the population might have believed then and the silly stories told now. Educated people at the time knew to within a reasonable degree of accuracy just how big the Earth was. That had been worked out by the ancient Greeks and the estimates had improved down the years.

They knew that the ships of the time would run out of water and food if they had to sail west all the way to the Indies.

The "Indies" are what we now call Indonesia.

Columbus was a nutter, a ratbag who managed to convince another nutter, Queen Isabella, that he was correct. The Queen and King were probably flush with funds so she financed three ships. They had just re-conquered the whole of Spain and were in the process of dispossessing the Muslims and Jews who had lived there for centuries. Wholesale robbery makes you rich for a while.

The dear Queen then went on to promote the Spanish Inquisition from a minor office of the Church into a name that has become a synonymous with repression and terror.

Columbus got lucky. He struck islands in the Caribbean before he ran out of food and water. As far as is known, he never sighted the mainlands of North, Central or South America much less put a foot on them.

He did not prove the world was round. The Church had quietly admitted that it was a ball hundreds of years before and the fact even appears in Dante's "Inferno" written long before Columbus was born.

Columbus wanted a hand in the spice trade. He had been born in Genoa just about the time that the Turks had finally conquered Constantinople, cutting off the trade that had made Genoa and Venice fabulously wealthy. That is why he sailed west and the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed all around Africa about the same time.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

D. Columbus did not know North and South America existed. He reasoned that the world was round. His original intent was to sail westward until he got to India. Otherwise, to get to India, in 1492, by ship, he would have to sail completely around Africa and approach India from the southwest. In those days, the trip would have taken at least one year.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

"The Indies" was what he wanted to find! Even if he had landed at the North Pole, he would have persuaded himself he had found "the Indies"!

Answer 6

D

he didn't think there was a continent in between Europe and Asia minor.

Answer 7

I thought it was because the indies was his destination

Answer 8

could be D

Answer 9

D

Answer 10

I AM SURE THAT IS D. :)