europe reasons for exploration
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Reasons for Exploration
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What motivated the explorers to explore?
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Spices
In the 1400s, there was no refrigeration. To prevent meat from spoiling, people drowned their meat in salt to preserve and dry it (like beef jerky). They also used a lot of spices like pepper to cover up the taste of the salted or spoiled meat.
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SpicesUnfortunately for Europeans, these spices did not grow anywhere in Europe. They were only found in Asian countries. It was very difficult to get the spices from Asia to Europe over land so spices became very expensive.
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SpicesSeveral European rulers finally decided to try to find a new route-a sea route. If a country could find a way to get these valuable spices to Europe, the rulers would be very rich.
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What you need to know about Spices
Europeans needed a sea route to get
spices cheaper.
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GoldGold was a hot item that explorers were looking for, but remember that it is really wealth, not just literal gold that explorers were after.
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What you need to know about gold
Gold would bring wealth and power
to whatever country found it.
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Larger EmpiresSome European rulers, especially the King of Spain and the King of Portugal, wanted to claim as much land as they could. They wanted to take all of the natural resources from the new land and use the people that lived there as slaves to do their work.
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What you need to know about larger empires
Countries would do anything to expand their empire to new
places. Larger empire = More power
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Spread ChristianityIn the late 1400s, there was only one religion in Europe, Christianity. The European rulers were very religious. They wanted to convert everyone to Christianity.
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What you need to know about spread Christianity
Europeans wanted to spread Christianity to the new places
they explored.
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