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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.
What is the farthest east of all of the islands of the West Indies?
Puerto Rico is the farthest east of all the West Indies countries
What is the largest island in the East Indies?
Brunei
What region including India china and the east indies?
Its Africa and Shababala
The farthest east of all the islands of the west indies?
Barbados
Did Christopher Columbus discover the East Indies?
No. Columbus discovered the West Indies while trying to reach the East Indies, which the Europeans already knew existed.
What year did Columbus set a fleet with three ships to find the indies?
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.
The middlemen whom the Europeans hoped to eliminate by finding a direct route to India and the East Indies were the?
the arabs
Where were the East Indies located?
The East Indies are Indonesia.
When was Spanish East Indies created?
Spanish East Indies was created in 1565.
When did Spanish East Indies end?
Spanish East Indies ended in 1899.
When was Dutch East Indies created?
Dutch East Indies was created in 1800.
When did Dutch East Indies end?
Dutch East Indies ended in 1942.
When was East Indies Station created?
East Indies Station was created in 1865.
What was the name of Indonesia before independence?
The Dutch East Indies. The Dutch East Indies.
Who is the indies?
There are two 'Indies'. The West Indies (Caribbean) and the East Indies (South and Southeast Aisa).
What is the other name given to SE Asian region?
East indies or dutch east indies
