FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which was not a motivation for European exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? Ottoman control of the Silk Road.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reasons for Exploration: All of the European nations ( Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands) came to America for the same 4 major reasons: wealth & power, religion, nationalism, and the Renaissance spirit of curiosity and adventure.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overview. Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, gold, and glory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Strong among them are the satisfaction of curiosity, the pursuit of trade, the spread of religion, and the desire for security and political power. At different times and in different places, different motives are dominant.