The lack of an operational Suez Canal.
The failure of the Suez Canal to be functional at the time played a major role in the trip planning experience.
In that time (1492 until 1600) they believed that is was difficult to sail so they traveled to Asia overland.
In order to get to Ohio, settlers would travel either overland or by waterways. Ferries and barges allowed people to travel hundreds of miles in a few days. Travel overland was much more arduous.
Travel was hard overland.
yes
Overland travelling is an adventure. If you want to see where you're going, and interact with the place's you'll visit, overland travel is the way to go.
No. They were all in wagons overland.
The Roman Empire did not travel. Empires are political entities, not people. Therefore, they do not travel. In antiquity people travelled overland on foot, on donkeys, on horses or in wagons. They also used boats on rivers and lakes and ships to cross the seas.
It is by overland and water travel historically and by that combination or by overland and plane travel in the twentieth century onward that Italians have gotten to the United States of America. The permanent or temporary migration may have resulted from dislocation, invitation, or sponsorship.
Yes, traveling along the Pan-American highway.
Richard Owen Hickman has written: 'An overland journey to California in 1852' -- subject(s): Overland journeys to the Pacific, Description and travel
Water is a cheaper means of travel than overland. Mules would pull the barges against the current.