Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on
A) assistance from an experienced Muslim sailor.
B) secret information on trade routes that he had received indirectly from Chinese sources.
C) legends left over from the earlier Viking voyages.
D) his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan.
E) information that he had gathered after inventing his own astrolabe.
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