Columbus said West on his first expedition because he was trying to find a quicker route to India. Back then they didn't know about the Americas so they thought they could reach India faster by traveling West insted of East.
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (left) believed he would reach the east if he sailed west.
Christopher Columbus was looking for a shortcut to India to get spices.
He was trying to reach China and India (the Indies). Knowing that the Earth was round, he knew that he could reach the East by going west around the planet. But his cartographers has vastly underestimated the circumference of the Earth and the longitude of China. His arduously long voyage gave him a better idea of the vast distances involved.
Still, when Columbus encountered the red-skinned natives of the Caribbean, he thought he had reached southeast Asia, and called the natives "Indians."
== == Actually to find a quicker route to India
because he thought he would run in Asia and it would be a shorter time to Asia but he really ran into north and south America
why did Columbus sail west on his first voyage.Find a shorter route to India.
Because they want to go asian.
To try to find a quicker way to Asia.
he wanted to find a faster route
He did not want Columbus to sail west
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To gain fortune and fame
The enterprise of the indies was Columbus's plan to sail West and end Up East
Columbus was trying to sail to asia. he thought that if he sailed west he would get there faster but instead he found newfoundland.
He did not want Columbus to sail west
He sailed west...
West.
No, he went south and then he went west.
The West Indies.
Columbus made 4 voyages to the new world.
Because one of his crewmen told him to believe it or not!
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To gain fortune and fame
The enterprise of the indies was Columbus's plan to sail West and end Up East
he planed to sail west from euro to get to the far east
Columbus wanted to sail west around the world to reach the Indies.