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Columbus Sailed westward because he followed the winds.
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Answer #2:
Answer #1 is an excellent response, and encapsulates in a few sagacious phrases
everything we need to know on the subject. Except for the inconvenient detail that
the winds in the latitudes of Columbus' voyages blow predominantly FROM the west,
not TOWARD the west.
Wasn't Columbus' original destination the coast of India, for the purpose of bringing silk
and spices back to Spain easily and without need of an arduous overland journey, so
that Queen Isabella could dress in the height of royal fashion while dining on meat that
was clearly past its prime and signing those documents to get rid of those pesky Jews ?
If he was headed from Spain to India, he would have had to remember to drop considerably
south, since the east coast of India is all less than 22 degrees north of the equator.
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when you are at lower latitudes are you at a higher location or lower?
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dis dick
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