[1Old Pro]

Maybe a wild guess here, but I suspect that the Panama Canal had not been fully completed and certified for ocean-going ships by 1492, and therefore North, Central, and South American kind of stood in Chris’s way to reaching ‘the Orient’.

Columbus was an idiot, if he flew it would have been much faster.

[House Atreides]

Columbus was an idiot, if he flew it would have been much faster.
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Or taken the train.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Or set off on his next adventure - to the Sun - at night.