Christopher Columbus,like most educated Europeans,believed that
A) the earth was spherical and could therefore be circumnavigated.
B) explorers would never reach the East Indies by sailing west.
C) the earth was flat,making circumnavigation impossible.
D) the earth was much larger than it actually was.
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