(September 16, 2018 at 12:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(September 16, 2018 at 11:00 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "Mr. Columbus, your gradeschool maths teacher is holding on line six. ... Okay, I'll have her call back. Have a nice trip to China."
I think it was india he was looking for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PO4dDRd1LM
He was looking for the Spice Islands, aka "the Indies". The Portuguese had a lock on the route around the Cape of Good Hope, and this inspired the Spanish to back an expedition looking for another way there.