Silk, spices,and perfumes
Europeans wanted to buy spices, gold and other goods.
Asia had lots of spices and other exotic goods like silk that they didn't have in Europe.
Europe was not wanting to sell, but import items into Europe. They wanted the spices, gunpowder, silks, perfumes that Asia had to offer.
Spices and perfumes were some of the things that Marco Polo set out to find in Asia during his exploration.
The cause of mercantilism growth was because the Europeans were tired of paying much from spices from Italy. They want to get the spices themselves from Asia.
No, they were principally after goods, spices being a very important part of those goods.
Most popular were spices and after that, porcelain, tea and silk.
Silk, spices,and perfumes
To gain food, spices, and silk from Asia. Also they knew people would pay more money for things from Asia
Initially spices and then cotton cloth, silk, porcelain (from China) and later tea. Those were the primary products that were sought in Asia.
They wanted to explore the world to get more knowledge about it, to get spices from Asia, and gold and silver.