he farted
he wanted to find a better rout to the east of India.
so that he could get to china
Christopher Columbus was to find new trade routs to Asia via the Atlantic Ocean, because the Moors where battling over the old land trade rout, Silk Road.
he wanted to find a new sea rout to Asia from Africa
To find a water route to Asia.
...He didn't land in the West Indies, he landed in South America. He thought it was the West Indies, but what he really found was a New World.
he thought he was going to India on his rout on the sea but he went to Wat's now known as the USA. Were he traveled and found people living in the US that were the Indians Christopher named them indies.
No one. There is no all water route to Asia.
He started in Spain. He was the first European to find the Pacific Ocean.
To Travel West Instead Of East
They wanted to find a water route to Asia because it was a faster and easier way to travel there than by land and water. Asia had many products such as silk and spices which would make you rich if you traded for it and then sold it in Europe.
Columbus was searching for a faster rout to Asia so he sailed west thinking the world was round...he was rite,he landed in a islnd an thougt that he landed India,they are still known as Indians.he didnt know he had found America.