Christopher Columbus's Decision to Sail West to Reach Asia Was

question 34

Multiple Choice

Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on

• A) assistance from an experienced Muslim sailor.
• B) secret information on trade routes that he had received indirectly from Chinese sources.
• C) legends left over from the earlier Viking voyages.
• D) his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan.
• E) information that he had gathered after inventing his own astrolabe.

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