Question

What was the initial reason for Columbus’s journey to the New World?(1 point) Responses to build a colony in North America to take advantage of fur trading to build a colony in North America to take advantage of fur trading to establish a slave trade route from the Americas to Africa to Europe to establish a slave trade route from the Americas to Africa to Europe to find a sea route to Asia that would give Spain direct access to valuable products of Asia to find a sea route to Asia that would give Spain direct access to valuable products of Asia to seek religious freedom as a result of the split of the Protestant Reformation

Answer 1

The initial reason for Columbus’s journey to the New World was to find a sea route to Asia that would give Spain direct access to valuable products of Asia.