Spices - most especially black pepper, oddly enough - were such in-demand additives to cooking at that time. But they were extremeely expensive, and hard to get, since they came from halfway around the world (black pepper was at one time literally worth it's own weight in gold). The financial benifit from being able to bring large supplies of spices back to Europe was huge. This required long seas voyages, where much more was discovered than just spices.
They wanted to explore the world to get more knowledge about it, to get spices from Asia, and gold and silver.
The ancient Europeans used spices to preserve food and add flavor to the bland foods.
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Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
The Europeans outside Italy wanted their own direct access to Asia's trade goods. Like food and spices
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Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore the Southwest.
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