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This answer is only vaguely correct. The truth is that Islam had decimated the silk road, killing and enslaving up to half of the population along its route because they were Christians. It was not safe to travel east. Spain had just kicked the Moors out of Spain after 700 years of occupation and were attempting to reestablish trade with old contacts; but by a different route.

The established route from Europe to China and the Indies was slow, dangerous, costly, and occupied by Islamic and other empires unfriendly to Christian Europeans. A water route was thought more likely to be secure, more effective, and by his own calculations much shorter and therefore quicker.

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