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What led to European exploration and expansion in the sixteenth century?
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Various motives will really shine through for this. The Ottomon empire has had a monopoly on trade with the east which meant that they could charge whatever they wanted for the products such as spices which were worth more (alot more) than their weight in gold. Explorers were funded by governments to find an alternative route to the East in order to bypass the Ottomons (keep in mind it wasn't only prices but the fact that this empire was Muslim and Europe was Catholic, funding Muslim communities was very much viewed as a bad thing during these times). Also we are looking at an age of enlightenment. People wanted to explore in order to learn. Religious missions are a huge factor for the exploration. Hugely supported by the Catholic church (mouths watering thinking of all the "heathens" to convert)... For smaller countries who had the money, they were very much thinking of boosting their resource pools and after the ball really got moving it was one huge race of keeping up with your neighbors. Balancing power and wealth throughout Europe has been a factor in nearly every government choice up into the 20th century wars easily...
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