Why did traveling around the world seem like a more
achievable goal than it really was?

would realistically take to travel around the world, because it hadn't been done before. It seemed like a much more achievable goal than it actually was. ... As explorers attempted to touch the other side of the world, their failures were often as grandiose as their successes.

Explanation:

explanation:

with the profits from the european sales, merchants purchased europe's manufactured  goods, including tools and weapons. then the merchants shipped those manufactured  goods, along with the  american  sugar and rum, to west africa where they were bartered for  slaves.