FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Question
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It was too far away and took too long.
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It was too slow and the crops to be traded spoiled.
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There was a lot of traffic and the other country traded with someone else.
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It was slow and dangerous
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Detailed explanation-1: -Europeans wanted the power and resulting wealth that would come from controlling trade. Finding all-water routes to Asia and its riches would allow European merchants to cut out Middle Eastern middlemen and reap all the profits of eastern trade. Some Europeans were also eager to spread Christianity to nonbelievers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Arabs had blocked the trade route to India across the Mediterranean sea. West European traders (from Spain, Portugal, Holland and England) began to search for other routes to India.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solution. The Turkish invasion made a trade in the eastern Mediterranean too risky. With the result, new trade-routes to India and the East were felt to come in force.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Europeans knew about the wealth of India since the ancient time out of the trade link that India established with Greece and Rome and they wanted to do trade with India. All the then existing trade routes were closed for Europeans after the fall of Constantinople in the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1453.