He didn't discover anything . He was a 17 year old with his father and uncle who were Venice merchants who wanted to set up trade with China. In China spices were found.
He was a Portuguese explorer who explored a part of China and opened up a trade route to China for spices.
His motivation was to find a quicker way to trade routes to china to trade goods such as spices clothing gold and silver
Spices, although silk and tea were important as well.
His motivation was to find a quicker way to trade routes to china to trade goods such as spices clothing gold and silver
His motivation was to find a quicker way to trade routes to china to trade goods such as spices clothing gold and silver
Christopher wanted to find a trade route to Asia. So he can trade items to get the spices Asia had. The spices helped preserve food.
China traded silk and spices all the way to Rome and Greece more than 2000 years ago.
The silk road was a system of interlinking trade routes between China and the west. The main products transported from China were silk garments and spices.
Primarily spices; being light, one traveler could carry a fortune's worth of spices. Later on, tea became quite popular.
Zheng He changed China by opening up more trade routes and gave China lots of foreign goods. For example he brought in spices.
Thru out history, the Chinese have been characterized as "merchants." Examples: The Silk Road (travelled for the purposes of trade); Marco Polo (discovering new trade goods); Colombus seeking a route to China for the purposes of trade; European explorers seeking trade routes to China for trade: silk, tea, spices).