The most common way of transporting these items was across the famous Silk Road, a trade route across Asia from the Middle East to the Far East.
Because they couldn't get them in Europe.
He wanted jewels spices cotton
Europe was not wanting to sell, but import items into Europe. They wanted the spices, gunpowder, silks, perfumes that Asia had to offer.
a. perfumes, spices, silks and jewels
Europe didn't trade spices to Asia, Asia traded spices to Europe. Europe sometimes gave Asia cloth or food and water for asia's spices. Some of the spices were even sometimes gold and valuble rocks.
spices
spices
He wanted to get to Asia because he wanted the Asian goods such as gold, jewels silks and spices.
Jewels and gold, mainly, because they found none of the rare spices they expected to find in East Asia.
East Asia had resources that Europe did not, such as certain spices or silk.
These goods are traded from (mainly) the East. This necessitated expensive journeys and made them luxury goods. They would have been available only to the rich, as the costs of transporting them from places like Asia were prohibitive. Remember that jewels, spices and silk are still expensive today! They aren't everyday items.
spices.