to find a new route for the spice trade
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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.
Puerto Rico is the farthest east of all the West Indies countries
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No. Columbus discovered the West Indies while trying to reach the East Indies, which the Europeans already knew existed.
In 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes of reaching the East Indies. He did not reach the East Indies, but landed instead in the Bahamas archipelago.
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The East Indies are Indonesia.
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Spanish East Indies was created in 1565.
Spanish East Indies ended in 1899.
Dutch East Indies was created in 1800.
Dutch East Indies ended in 1942.
East Indies Station was created in 1865.
The Dutch East Indies. The Dutch East Indies.
There are two 'Indies'. The West Indies (Caribbean) and the East Indies (South and Southeast Aisa).