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The explorer who stayed home was Prince Henry when he taught sailors in navigation to make sure they make their way through their destination to find a water route to the indies (Asia). They wanted to find a water route because the land route in Constantinople was closed off.
Marco Polo sailed around the tip of Africa in 1487 and found what proved to be the first all-water route to the Indies.Vasco da Gama also found all water route to the indies.
Ferdinand Magellan
He traveld for the Indies
He wanted to find a trade route to The Northwest Indies. This was the primary objective of the explorers in his time.
Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Italian explorer, searched for a route to the Indies through North America in 1524. Commissioned by the French crown, he explored parts of the Atlantic coast of North America, including what is now New York Harbor and the surrounding areas. His voyage aimed to find a passage to the Pacific and ultimately to Asia, but he did not succeed in locating such a route.
All of them. They also wanted the riches they thought they would have when they found the route to Asia.
Columbus and his crew were not searching for America - the were searching for an alternate route to the Indies when they found the Americas quite by accident.
He wanted to find a water route to Asia, but found the Bahamas instead. He had made a contract with the Spanish crown to be made the admiral of the deep blue sea and to get a percentage of the riches found.
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