It was soon understood that Columbus had not reached Asia, but rather found a new continent: the Americas.

Saavedra believed that such a canal would make it easier for European vessels to reach Asia.

His grand dream was to reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic.

They were trying to find a way of reaching Asia by going west and they had to get past South America.

Consequently it seemed to Columbus a relatively simple matter to reach Asia by sailing west.

These practices reached southeast Asia during the dot-com mania in the 1990s.

There, he believed he had reached Asia and made no attempt to found a permanent colony.

Tori asked, it being possible to reach Asia by either method.

The teeth resembled those of extremely early human ancestors not previously known to have reached Asia.

But until recently, there had been little unambiguous evidence that hominids had reached eastern Asia any earlier than one million years ago.