TYPICAL ERROR
CORRECTION
EXPLANATION
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- When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, land routes to the East were closed.
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- This meant that Europeans needed to find alternative routes to the East for access to silk, china (Chinese porcelain), cinnamon, pepper, ginger, paper, etc.
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- Hence, adventurers set out to find a sea route to the East Indies and China.
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- In 1492, Columbus arrived at what he thought was the western end of the East Indies and named the islands, inappropriately, the West Indies.
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- On his boat was Americus Vespucci.
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- That is where the name America comes from.
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- It was the Portuguese who actually reached the East Indies first.
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- In 1488, Bartholomew Diaz discovered a route to the Indian Ocean via the southern tip of Africa.
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- A decade later, Vasco de Gama followed that route and arrived at Calicut, city of spices, on the west coast of India.
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- Thus, trade with the East could start again.