Lauren Preston

Social Studies

6 February, 19:36

What was the initial reason for Columbus's journey to the New World?

(A.) to seek religious freedom as a result of the split of the Protestant Reformation

(B.) to find a sea route to Asia that would give Spain direct access to valuable products of Asia

(C.) to build a colony in North America to take advantage of fur trading

(D.) to establish a slave trade route from the Americas to Africa to Europe