Europeans were primarily interested in trading goods such as spices, silk, precious metals, and textiles during the Age of Exploration. Spices like pepper, cloves, and cinnamon were highly sought after for their value in preserving food and enhancing flavors. Additionally, silk from Asia and cotton textiles from India attracted significant demand in European markets. The desire for these luxury items drove exploration and trade routes, significantly impacting global commerce.
Europeans were most interested in spices, particularly during the Age of Exploration, as they were highly valuable for their ability to enhance flavor, preserve food, and serve medicinal purposes. Spices like pepper, cinnamon, and cloves were rare in Europe and commanded exorbitant prices, leading to fierce competition among nations for control over trade routes to Asia. The quest for these trade goods not only fueled exploration but also significantly influenced global trade patterns and economic systems.
It's generally agreed that the arrival of European settlers was of no benefit to the First Nations. They lost their land and often their lives too because of warfare, through starvation or most usually through diseases brought by Europeans, to which they had no resistance.
It was a trading triangle:- Goods were sailed to West Africa and exchanged for slaves. The slaves were sailed to America and exchanged for tobacco, sugar and cotton. Tobacco, sugar and cotton were sailed to Europe and exchanged for money The money was used to purchase more goods to be sailed to Africa. Profit was taken out at each point in the triangle by the most money was made at the third point when goods form the Americas came back to Europe. That said the slave trading kingdoms in Africa became quite prosperous too as did the American plantation owners.
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Most of the American born are descendants of Europeans, because the USA was once colony of Europe.
Europeans were most intrested in spices from Asia.
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Canada, Mexico, China
Canada, Mexico, China
Two countries can gain from trading two goods when they have different comparative advantages in producing those goods, allowing them to specialize in what they are most efficient at and trade for the goods they are less efficient at producing. This can lead to increased efficiency, lower prices, and a wider variety of goods for both countries.
At that period of time the Ottoman Empire conquested the main route to Asia where some goods, materials and mines such as silk and spice. European countries were trading with India and China also most of the inventions like gunpowder, compass and paper was Chinese. Europeans were also transfering since and technology from Asia. After the Ottomans were blocked the route Europeans searched for alternative routes to Asia to continue the trade.
They lived by trading. Since most of the then known civilization was established around the Mediterranean Sea, trading meant sailing to collect and deliver goods.