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Why did Christopher Columbus want to find new trade routes?

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Columbus wanted to find a new route to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands. ... Columbus knew that the world was round and realised that by sailing west - instead of east around the coast of Africa, as other explorers at the time were doing - he would still reach his destination.

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