Question

Explain why the increasing prices of Eastern goods in Europe helped lead to the discovery of America.

Answer 1

The reason why the increasing prices of Eastern goods in Europe led to the discovery of America was that the Europeans needed a new route to Asia to avoid the middlemen who made the Eastern goods expensive.

Why did the Europeans seek a route to Asia?

For Eastern goods to reach Europe, they had to go over the Levant and the Middle East. These were areas that were controlled by Muslim empires and nations and so they had no incentive to be nice to the Europeans. To that end, they increased the prices of the Eastern goods passing through their territories.

The Europeans then knew that they would have to cut out the Muslim middlemen from the trade in Eastern goods. People like Christopher Columbus believed that if you sailed west from Europe, you should eventually get to Asia. And so he got permission to do so and that was how he rediscovered America for Europeans.

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