Asia.
Silk road.
They wanted a route to Asia. The Silk Road was long, expensive, and dangerous.
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.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the governments of Europe wanted to find sea trade routes to East Asia. They also wanted gold and silver.
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
Italy was not a united country. City-states like Genoa and Venice controlled much of the trade to Asia.
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In Greece and Asia.
Italy was not a united country. City-states like Genoa and Venice controlled much of the trade to Asia.
The silk Road...
Silk road.
The Mediterranean sea, and Atlantic and Indian oceans provided trade routes between Asia, Africa, and Europe.
India and Hinduism in particular dominated the world
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
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Asia.