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Queen isabella was motivated to support columbus' first voyage west because

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She wanted to find a faster way to India. This would enable them to avoid the middleman Arab countries that were taking taxes from controlling the land and the trade, and it would enable them to get spices and silk and nice things like that directly from the source.
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