Some explorers wanted to claim the land for their country.
To colonize the new world, make profit and introduce new commodities to the people of England. Their exploration of the new world in the 16th and 17th centuries can be the root cause as to why they held such a large commonwealth in the 1800-1900s.
Exploration of new places meant that Europe now had access to new materials, ideas, riches, and people to trade with. For example the potato came from Central America, and tobacco from North America. The Spanish were able to find more gold and treasures. Eventually Europeans conquered these places, like the British, Spanish or Portuguese empires.
Corn was essentially unknown before Europeans came to the new world. It because very popular in the colonies as well as Europe.
Christopher Columbus reached North America in 1492 and came back to Spain to report his discovery and so alerted Europe to the New World and began a fury of voyages of exploration and the founding of settlements by Spain , Portugal, the Netherlands, France and England. Viking ships had reached North America before Columbus but this information was not known in Europe outside of Scandinavia.
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To find new spices from India to bring to Europe.
John Cabot was the first person to explore the new world for England.
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To colonize the new world, make profit and introduce new commodities to the people of England. Their exploration of the new world in the 16th and 17th centuries can be the root cause as to why they held such a large commonwealth in the 1800-1900s.
to find and own new land in the new world
cause they wanted to Actually, England did not begin the process of colonization significantly later than the rest of Europe. They colonized the East Coast of North America shortly after the French and Spanish began to explore the New World. but WHY?
The Europeans explored the New World with ships.
He was commissioned by King Francis I of France to explore the new world.
It was an accident.
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He was commissioned by King Francis I of France to explore the new world.
The single most event that encouraged Europe to explore the world and leave the Dark Ages was the journey of Marco Polo to China and back. The Spanish Reconquista also played a role in encouraged Europeans to explore because when the Spanish reconquered their land from the Muslims, they funded Christopher Columbus's voyage to what would be discovered as the New World.