Question

Some European sailors sailed west looking for the ____passage to india?

a.Southwest
b.northwest
c.west

Answer 1

Southwest! Italian explorer who sailed for Spain in hope to find a western passage to India but in his efforts discovered Central America. Amerigo Vespucci. Italian explorer who sailed for Portugal and discovered South America, consequently dubbing it the " new world".

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Answer 2

b. Northwest

The Northwest Passage was a presumed pathway through which sailors could easily sail through the Americas to reach the Pacific Ocean and India. However, it did not exist and sailors were forced to travel around the southern tip of South America until the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s.

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