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Asia.
They wanted a route to Asia. The Silk Road was long, expensive, and dangerous.
They didn't look for a new world. They stumbled upon it. They were looking for new trade routes to the known world.
Faster trade routes and to expand there territories! The explorers did it for favor of the crown among other benefits.
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.
Asia.
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They wanted a route to Asia. The Silk Road was long, expensive, and dangerous.
Ottoman taxes and restrictions on trade in its territory encouraged Europeans to seek new trade routes to Asia.
to more stuff for the europeans
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
.... avoid expensive middlemen.
New trade routes to Asia
Europeans had to find new trade routes to the East because the Ottoman Empire controlled and taxed existing routes.
The three main reasons for European exploration of the New World were to find new trade routes to Asia, to spread Christianity to indigenous peoples, and to seek wealth and resources such as gold and silver.
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