Most popular were spices and after that, porcelain, tea and silk.
Asia.
With the icecaps melting and polar sea lanes becoming more accessible, Europe and Asia are exploring vastly increased trade through the formerly impassable Northwest Passage. The connecting port in Europe would be Murmansk.
The European battles for Indian Ocean trade affected the peoples of Asia. Before the nineteenth century, The Europeans overtook most of the local regency and the British controlled the Chinese through opium.
They wanted a route to Asia. The Silk Road was long, expensive, and dangerous.
Because they wanted to find out an alternative route that would allow to bypass the Middle East Muslim countries, avoid the trade monopole of the spices and other valuable goods held by Venice and Genoa and get directly to trade with Japan, China and other East Asia countries.
There were some historical periods when it was really not that easy for Europeans to trade with Asia, but it was at least possible to do so, because of trade routes which went from Asia, through Afghanistan, to Europe. Europe and Asia form a single land mass, sometimes called Eurasia, so no shipping is actually required to travel from Asia to Europe.
spices and silk
a trade route to asia
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
Spices and silk
Spices and silk
Asia.
spices and silk
he traveled through Asia and he brought the first europeans to America
Asia's good can't get to he europeans because of the Muslims so they have to look for a route that they can trade with the Asia directly. if they can find that route then they wont hav o deal with the Muslims.The Christian Europeans did no like the situation, since region and politics. The Europeans wanted a sea route to Asia because of trade.
Ottoman taxes and restrictions on trade in its territory encouraged Europeans to seek new trade routes to Asia.
Too find a shorter root for the spice trade they had with Asia