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Christopher Columbus's voyage was based on suppositionsthat he set sail to prove. His supposition that the Earth was round turned out to be true. His supposition that he could sail directly to Asia by going west proved to be false.
He did not want Columbus to sail west
He wanted to discover a new world and prove that if you kept going in a straight line, you wouldnt fall off the earth.
to prove you could sail west, go around South America, cross the Pacific Ocean, and end up back in Spain.
He sailed west...
West.
No, he went south and then he went west.
SPAIN!
that you could get to the orient faster by sailing west than by sailing around Africa
Both Columbus and Cabot figured out they could sail west to reach the Indies.
The West Indies.
Columbus made 4 voyages to the new world.