. The student's American history . d discover a far shorter andmore direct all-water route to the much-coveted Indies. Theleading geographers of that day regarded the earth as a globe.*Columbus held the same idea, but he considered the globe tobe much smaller than it actually is. It embraced, as he sup-posed, but one ocean — the Atlantic — which surrounded thethree continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. These threecontinents, with their outlying islands, he believed consti-tuted all the land there was. He imagined that the Indiesfaced Europe at a distance of less than four thousand
. The student's American history . d discover a far shorter andmore direct all-water route to the much-coveted Indies. Theleading geographers of that day regarded the earth as a globe.*Columbus held the same idea, but he considered the globe tobe much smaller than it actually is. It embraced, as he sup-posed, but one ocean — the Atlantic — which surrounded thethree continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. These threecontinents, with their outlying islands, he believed consti-tuted all the land there was. He imagined that the Indiesfaced Europe at a distance of less than four thousand plan for reaching the far East was very simple ; he would THE WORLD AS KNOWN SHORTLY BEFORE AND SHORTLY AFTER THE SAILING OF COLUMBUS. Light arrows show voyages made up to 1492 ; (light track, Da Gamas voyage, 1497).Dark arrows, voyages of Columbus and Cabot. White crosses, countries of which something was known before area, including western coast of Africa, the world as known shortly before thesailing of
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