HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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disruption in trade of luxury goods brought overland to Europe.
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Europeans outside Italy to search for direct access to Asia.
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Renaissance curiosity to spark a major religious revival in Europe.
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Europeans outside Italy to seek direct access to North Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Along with the idea of looking for new trade routes, they also hoped to find new sources of gold, silver, and other valuables. Additionally, Europeans saw exploration as a way to bring Christianity to other cultures that lived in other lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -How was trade between Europe and Africa before the 1400s different from trade between those continents between the 1400s and the 1700s? Trade between Europe and Africa before the 1400s was indirect. Between the 1400s and the 1700s, it was direct.
Detailed explanation-4: -Europeans have long been fascinated with Asian goods. Fine porcelain from China and Indian fabrics fuelled the rise of merchant trade houses like the British East India Company that delivered goods to Europe beginning in the 1600s.