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Spain. Columbus had first asked Portugal, but their geographers were better than Columbus and they had quickly calculated that Columbus estimated the circumference of the Earth at 1/3rd of its real size and that he never would find India and China where he thought it was.

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Spain, after Portugal turned him down.

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Q: What country financed Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492?
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