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Which continent did the Portuguese think they could sail around to get to the east indies?
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Which continent did the portuguese believe they could sail around the reach the east indies?
Africa
Why could Columbus not used the Mediterranean trade route or water trade route around Africa in order to get to the Indies?
He could have used either of the routes you suggest. However Columbus was on a journey of exploration to see if there was a shorter faster route to the Indies by sailing to the west.
Why are the Caribbean islands often referred to as the west Indies?
The direction refers to the direction that one must travel FROM EUROPE to arrive. You must go west to the West Indies and east to the East Indies. Before Columbus' discovery he was trying to find a route to India and/or the East Indies. At the time of his discovery trade for Far East items like silk and spices involved several steps from source to destination making the products very expensive and very slow to obtain. Had Columbus been successful the Europeans could have gone directly to the source, purchased precisely what they wanted, without a markup for any intermediary, and returned home with product in a relatively short period of time. A direct ocean route around Africa to the East indies was found by Vasco de Gama for the Portuguese in 1498.
Who was a Portuguese mariner who believed that by sailing west he could find a water passageway around the Americas?
Magellan
What sea are the West Indies located in?
The West Indies are located in the Caribbean Sea.
Why did Spain look Westward for the Indies?
In the 15 th century conventional wisdom said that the world was flat. Therefore if you sailed too far West you could fall off the edge. However, there was a valuable trade with the far East. The only way to get there was to sail South around the bottom of Africa and then up to the North and over toward the East. That was a exceptionally long, arduous round trip. Columbus postulated that the world was not flat, but was, in fact, round. He reasoned that the world was small enough, and round, and that would enable him to go to the West and reach the Indies. In that way he could avoid the trip around the Continent of Africa. He expected this new route to reach the Indies in much less time. He didn't know that there were two completely unknown continents in his way. When he reached islands off the coast of North America he assumed that he had reached the Indies. As we now know, he was mistaken. He had discovered islands off the coast off one new continent. Eventually he found the othe new continent too.. It took almost another century for spomeone to sail around the tip of South America and reach the Pacific Ocean.
What part of the new world was influenced by Portuguese culture?
Portugal's only land in the New World (that lasted) was Brazil, a colony (and modern day country) comprising over half of the South American continent. Brazil's official and most spoken language is by far Portuguese and it also shows cultural influence by the Portuguese. Uruguay was at once a part of Portuguese Brazil so you too could argue that it has been influenced by its Portuguese rulers.
Portugal believed it could reach the East Indies by sailing around the tip of?
The tip of Africa (Vasco da Gama did it).
Why did the portuguese want to find a route around Africa into the Indian ocean so they could buy goods for cheper prices?
spice
What is 'that' in Portuguese?
you could say 'isso' or 'aquilo'
Where was the head of West Indies federation?
The Federation consisted of ten territories, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, the then St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago. One of the several issues that could not be resolved and led to the dissolution of the organization was the location to be designated as the organization headquarters. See the link below for a brief history of the West Indies Federation.
Why did the Portuguese want to explore Africa and Asia?
The Portuguese wanted to explore Africa and Asia to see what different artifacts they could find.
