Why did colubus go on his voyages?
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He try to find a shorter road to India
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Christopher Columbus did not go anywhere to try and be free. He got lost.
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First off, why would he have to put blue whales in a boat for a flood?? Flood, water, fish.  Think about your question.  Second who says that the world was the same before the flood as after.  No one says that the continents didn't shift, move.  Third God sent the animals,  there also had to be a miracle to keep flesh eating animals with their prey.  You haven't even brought up the fact that he built a boat the size of a world war II aircraft carrier without modern equiptment.  Since you don't believe in miracles, obviously it would be too much for a God that made the whole universe to do these things.  How about raising Jesus from the dead, or Jesus raising Lazerus from the dead.  That is harder than bringing the animals to my point of view..  If it is just a story, how do the sea shells get up into the mountains?  Too much evidence to deny the flood.  Think about the whales, it will help.  Whoops here I am out in the cornfield again.  Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did he..  Noah just did it and God made it happen..
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Probably walked, or rode a horse, or by ship.  Many different modes of transport.
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Background\n\nThomas Jefferson had long thought about such an expedition. While Minister to France from 1785-1789, Jefferson had heard of numerous plans to better explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson learned that King Louis XVI of France planned to send a mission there, reportedly as a mere scientific expedition. Jefferson found that doubtful, and evidence provided by John Paul Jones confirmed these doubts. In either event, the mission was destroyed by bad weather after leaving Botany Bay in 1788. In 1786 John Ledyard, who had sailed with Captain James Cook to the Pacific Northwest, told Jefferson that he planned to walk across Siberia, ride a Russian fur-trade vessel to cross the ocean, and then walk all the way to the American capitol. Since Ledyard was an American, Jefferson hoped him success. Ledyard had made it as far as Siberia when Czarina Catherine the Great had him arrested and deported back to Poland. [1]\n\nIn a message to Congress, Jefferson wrote[2]\n\n    The river Missouri, and Indians inhabiting it, are not as well known as rendered desirable by their connection with the Mississippi, and consequently with us. ... An intelligent officer, with ten or twelve chosen men ... might explore the whole line, even to the Western Ocean ...\n\nIn a letter dated June 20, 1803, Jefferson wrote to Lewis[3]\n\n    The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce.\n\nLouisiana Purchase and a western expedition\nThe famous map of Lewis and Clark's expedition. It changed mapping of northwest America by providing the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, and the Rocky Mountains.\n\nThe famous map of Lewis and Clark's expedition. It changed mapping of northwest America by providing the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, and the Rocky Mountains.\n\nIn 1803, the Louisiana Purchase sparked interest in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, President Jefferson, an advocate of western expansion, had the Congress appropriate $2,500, "to send intelligent officers with ten or twelve men, to explore even to the Western ocean". They were to study the Indian tribes, botany, geology, Western terrain and wildlife in the region, as well as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area. The expedition was not the first to cross North America but was roughly a decade after the expedition of Alexander MacKenzie, the first European to cross north of Mexico (almost) to the Pacific Ocean, in 1793.\n\nJefferson selected Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, afterwards known as the Corps of Discovery; Lewis selected William Clark as his partner. Because of bureaucratic delays in the U.S. Army, Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain"[1].\n\nJourney\n\n    See also: Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition\n\nMeriwether Lewis and William Clark meeting at the falls of the Ohio River; statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana (across from Louisville)\nEnlarge\nMeriwether Lewis and William Clark meeting at the falls of the Ohio River; statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana (across from Louisville)\n\nClark made most of the preparations, by way of letters to Jefferson. He brought two large buckets and five smaller buckets of salt, a ton of dried pork, and medicines.\n\nThe group, initially consist
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because human wanted to fly and they wanted an easy way to go around the world
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this is a vague queston. But I believe i know what you are asking. Well He already believed that Pangea had formed and broken apart. Evidence from Glacial Striations and rock formations, not to mension an almost perfect mactch of shorelines. I guess it would have more support for his theory. He concluded that the continents were moving. What he could not prove was the mechinism for the movement. it is not actually the continents moving. They are hitching a ride on the techtonic plates.
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He was a famous explorer
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They looked for a new comercial route to Asia, In fact the first time they reach America. They thought that they have been reach Asia turning the earth to west but what they had been found was a new territory. When they traveled along the old comercial routes from the East, from  Asia, carrying goods.They had to pay taxes on the borders of all countries they crossed. So they thought it would be a good idea travel to west to reach Asia.
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because he was human, he got temptations and everything, and it was worse for him because as the christ, it would be his first real experience of pain. Besides, look at the human race, were a waste of space, why should he go through all that for us? WOuldn't u hide, they are going to whip you and nail you to a cross, come on, you arent going to walk right up and be like "ok, here i am", at that time he was human, remember that
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To fulfill his work on earth.  He was meant to come as the sacrificial lamb to be given up as Lambs were at the time.  \nBy doing so those who believed in him would not die but have everlasting life.  \n\nAs far as who Crucified him, some would say the Romans were responsible some would say the high priests, but in truth it was the people who honored his arrival in Jerusalem that later turned on him and freed Barabbas (a rebel and a murderer) instead of Jesus when Pontius Pilate gave them the choice.  So in a sense it was the people, or you and I, that crucified him.
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His voyages to the Americas began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the continent. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage in 1498.
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25:7. And they say: "Why does this Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) eat food, and walk about in the markets (as we). Why is not an angel sent down to him to be a warner with him?\n\n     25:8. "Or (why) has not a treasure been granted to him, or why has he not a garden whereof he may eat?" And the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers) say: "You follow none but a man bewitched."
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they were the beasts of burden in the desert.  They were used to carry people and stuff long distances.  Just like....ships!!!!
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Looking for riches. Looking for new lands to conquer. Wanted to get away from the wife and kids. Because it was there. Lots of reasons.
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The first boat was probably a raft...\n\nAlthough it was before recorded history, there is evidence that some of the first Homo Sapiens to leave Africa, traveled from Ethiopia to Yemen, between 75-80,000 years ago. The distance is less than 10 miles, so they could see which direction to explore, and it was after an Ice Age, so the water levels were down appx. 150'...\n\nThe motivation for these Hunter/Gatherers was to find new food sources, and it was clear that wood floats, so they had the confidence they could make the journey safely, which they did...\n\nLater, perhaps 70,000 years ago, there is evidence that Australian Aborigines could have only arrived there my the making of rafts...
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to get to the other side