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he went because of the spice
A spectacular accomplishment, his journey was the first complete trip around the world. Unfortunately, the trip was been so risky and the distance was so far, that it proved to be highly impractical as a trade route.
A cruise around South America.
They wanted a quick route to the Orient without having to go south and around Africa or South America.
to the south of America
The discovery of the Pacific Ocean was important because it became a route by which to navigate around the globe. Vasco Nunez de Balboa named the Pacific Ocean the South Sea, and used it as a way to get around the tip of South America.
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they fly south
Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to round the Cape Horn. He discovered it as he was on his circumnavigation of the earth in 1520.
He came from Europe down up and around than landed in Florida a look in South East America.
The shortest route between South America and Africa would have you leaving from the nation of Brazil. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808.
The Panama Canal is the shortest route.