The 1492 Voyage of Christopher Columbus.
In 1479, Portugal and Castile , one of the two kingdoms that, 13 years later unite to become Spain, ended a war by signing a peace treaty. Castile, in this treaty agreed to not sail the Atlantic Ocean south and East of The Atlantic Ocean.
This made the route that Columbus wanted to take to reach India and China appealing for Ferdinand and Isabela to consider.
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