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Of the following events, which one created the financial conditions that encouraged Christopher Columbus to sail to the New World in 1492?
  1. Spain adopted silver currency.
  2. Vasco DaGama sailed to India.
  3. Constantinople’s trade routes fell to the Turks.
  4. Sugar plantations were created off of the African coast.
Explanation
Answer - C - Constantinople’s trade routes falling to the Turks created the financial conditions that encouraged Christopher Columbus to sail to the New World in 1492.

Key Takeaway: The primary motivation for Christopher Columbus’s expedition was to discover a new route to spice markets in East Asia. The trade routes that had been used traveled over Byzantine territories. After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the supply of trade goods from Asia greatly declined.
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