For easier, faster, and less risky shipping of desirable goods and items.
Spain
a trade route to asia
For easier, faster, and less risky shipping of desirable goods and items.
For easier, faster, and less risky shipping of desirable goods and items.
He was looking for a water route to Asia.
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reduce the time it took to transport goods
He was looking for a water route to Asia. The Silk Road was long, dangerous, and expensive so water route would be faster and get more things to Europe.
He wanted to find a really fast and easy trade route to the Indies, or Asia. The Indies had a bunch of spices, which Europeans did not have.
They wanted to find a direct water route to Asia, for trade.
so he could get there faster
Because the other routes were to dangerous and too expensive.