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what were two good reasons that Isabella could have given for not helping colombus when he asked the first time

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He based his calculations of how long it would take to reach India on mere speculations (which turned out to be deeply misleading), and he was Italian, not Spanish, so he might have been secretly working for the Italian royal court.
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