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Throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mongols disrupted international relations through their conquests and establishment of a vast empire, which led to political, economic, and cultural exchanges across Eurasia. Their military campaigns brought about power shifts and redefined trade routes, causing existing political structures to be challenged and reshaped. The Mongol Empire's control over vast territories influenced diplomacy and interactions between regions, fostering both unity and conflict among different states.
The Age of Exploration was primarily driven by a desire for wealth through the search for new trade routes to Asia, as well as a quest for glory and spreading religion. Technological advancements in navigation and shipbuilding also played a significant role in enabling explorers to venture further from their home countries in search of new lands and resources.
It Provides Food and Trade Routes
The land routes were supplemented by sea routes which extended from the Red Sea to East Africa, India, China, and Southeast Asia. In the late Middle Ages, transcontinental trade over the land routes of the Silk Road declined as sea trade increased.
The Muslim world tended to play an intermediary role in world trade. They controlled the overland trading routes between Europe and Asia. Until the voyages of exploration and discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, they also controlled the sea routes between Africa and Asia.
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
All of them
sea between europe and africa that people used to use as trade routes
The rise of European maritime trade in the 15th century, particularly the discovery of new sea routes to Asia, caused a decrease in trans-Saharan trade. Europeans were able to bypass the Sahara Desert and establish direct trade links with Africa's coastal regions, diminishing the importance and profitability of the trans-Saharan trade routes.
Trans-Saharan trade routes were primarily land based, the Silk road was both land and sea.
sea route