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indications are that there is a connection and

communication between the European and American

continents long before Columbus was able to discover

them.

The idea of the expedition came to the mind of the

traveler Columbus for several reasons, the most

important of which are: achieving fame, and then

getting rich as a result, and his intolerance to

Catholicism had a motive for continuing to move

forward to find a path other than the one that crosses

Muslim countries, or the country of (the

Mohammedans) as he said And as his adventurous

spirit drove him to delve into the theory of scholars of

his time.

They emphasized that by virtue of the spherical shape

of the Earth, access to the continent of Asia and the

Indian subcontinent is not limited to flights to the

eastern side, but it is also possible to head west and

reach these continents, and he relied on this trip on the

most recent map of that era: two maps of the worlds
Paolo Toscanelli, And the German Martin Beckham.

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