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To: koan who wrote (554644)	3/11/2010 10:14:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571813

Why didn't anyone travel west from europe earlier. It wasn't that far?? By the standards of the day it was very far. Columbus left Spain on August 3, 1492. He left the Canary Islands on on September 6, 1492. Land was sighted in the Americas on October 12, So it was either a month and 6 days, or two months and 9 days depending on how you calculate it. en.wikipedia.org And they didn't even know that it would only take that long. Their aim was not America (which they essentially didn't know about despite the Vikings earlier travels) but to get to Asia. Imagine if the Americas didn't exist and it was just one big ocean to Asia. Columbus's crew would probably have mutinied and whether or not they did they might have died.