Why Did Spanish and Portuguese Scholars Reject Columbus's Proposal to Sail

question 26

Multiple Choice

Why did Spanish and Portuguese scholars reject Columbus's proposal to sail to the Indies by way of the Atlantic?

• A)They believed the route he planned would take him into the frigid zone.
• B)They thought landmass of the Americas was too large to circumnavigate.
• C)They thought Columbus's calculations made the world too big.
• D)They believed the trip from Spain to Japan was longer than Columbus realized.
• E)They cited other passages in the Bible that rejected Columbus's passages.

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