Christopher Columbus
... of Portugal to back his plan to search for a fast trade route to the Indies ... 1485 Christopher Columbus moves to Cadiz in Spain opening another shop ...
www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/christopher-columbus.htm

Routes across American Andalusia through architecture information ...
CADIZ The cities are endowed with many buildings connected with the route to the Indies (as the newly discovered lands were first called), resulting from ...
www.malagacar.com/information/andalusia/andalusia_discovery...

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War and Game: SPANISH BOARD OF TRADE
... the task of testing those who hoped to be pilots on the route to the Indies. ... The fleets generally sailed from the bay of Cadiz in the last third of ...
warandgame.blogspot.com/2008/06/spanish-board-of-trade.html - 98k - Cached - Similar pages
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Cultural Routes. Official Tourism Website of Andalusia
The cities of the province of Cádiz are endowed with many buildings connected with the Route to the Indies (as the newly discovered lands were first called) ...
www-org.andalucia.org/modulos.php?modulo=Rcultural&fichero=subruta&ruta=11&subruta=44&navegacion..

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Article - Tudor Exploration
The Spanish needed a trade route to the Indies and Magellan presented King Charles .... During the war with Spain Drake attacked Cadiz and destroyed a large ...
www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/12TudorExploration.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages
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Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History - Google Books Result
by Elizabeth Nash - 2005 - Travel - 252 pages
... which became a favoured port on the route to the Indies. ... So ships increasingly docked in Cadiz, causing that modest little port to grow rapidly, ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0195182030...

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video here - the Indies refers to the Far East - the "East Indies", etc., rather than the Americas/colonies

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/25059-the-explorers-trad...

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa Italy in 1451, the son of a wool merchant and weaver.

At the age of 14 he went to sea for the first time ..... In 1484 he devised ‘The Enterprise of the Indies’ a plan to sail to India west rather than the traditional eastern route, all he needed to fulfil his dream was a patron.
www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/12TudorExploration.html
In 1485, after many rejections from possible patrons in France, England and Portugal, Columbus moved to Spain and finally received backing from Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile, his trip to the New World now became a possibility.

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But would add that the term "Indies" later came to be used for the new colonies being established in Central and South America and the Caribbean - also called "the Indies run" - which may be a better answer...

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Spain organized the"Indies run" from the port of Seville. This comprised a network of communications that for the first time acquired planetary dimensions; it meant that every year the thousands of kilometres separating the Philippines from Europe would be covered by shipping routes.
http://www.armada15001900.net/THE LONGEST TRANSOCEANIC ROUTE...

An 800-ton sixteenth century Spanish galleon from the reign of Phillip II, belonging to the Indies run. This is a typical example of the famous and definitive Spanish galleon; a mix of fighting ship & cargo ship.

https://vault1.secured-url.com/model/acatalog/Constructo_.ht...