What were the 3 main reason for European exploration?

Answer 1

The first reason was political:to colonise. There is need to point out that colonisation was used as a coloration for greed.The main motive for colonisation was greed.

The second reason was economy.Lack of manpower and physical strength especially, to work in farms.The Europeans were and still are weak. They could not do hard job like the naturally hard built Africans.This gives reason for the slave trade ,which was the buying away of able bodied Africans to work in their farms and later mechanisation of agriculture.Even then, there were no ready-buyers of the machines in the European markets, so they had to move,exploring where demand was high or higher. This ofcourse was Africa

The third was commerce .There was no ready-made market for European goods to be sold. So they went out with thier products to Africa where there was a free , available and lucrative market. This is gave birth to the infamous SCRAMBLE FOR AFRCA and subsequently the partitioning of africa.

{princewill esara)

Answer 2

In 15th century Europeans knew very little about the rest of the world.They thought that the world was flat if they would go too far they would fall of the edge. In the early 16th century 1.some of the Europeans had an spirit of adventure and they have to gain knowledge about the rest of the world so they decided to travel and explore 2.European merchants wanted to find a sea route to the east to control the sea routes to India and they needed a shorter way to go to India for trade. 3.European Christians wanted to spread their religion on other lands