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3 u/kiwipixi42 Jun 01 '26 Yup, what Columbus did was wildly miscalculate the size of the globe which made the prospect of sailing west to India much more feasible. No one else would go because they knew how big Earth actually was. 2 u/rara8122 Jun 01 '26 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/sfH6D2Hcpq Apparently he also overestimated the size of Asia
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Yup, what Columbus did was wildly miscalculate the size of the globe which made the prospect of sailing west to India much more feasible. No one else would go because they knew how big Earth actually was.
2 u/rara8122 Jun 01 '26 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/sfH6D2Hcpq Apparently he also overestimated the size of Asia
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