The Portuguese and Spanish decide to begin, The Age of Discovery as they hoped they could find their own route to the Indies and break the Venetian stranglehold.
Age of Discovery was for ignorance of the large size of the African continent, the Portuguese were obsessed with conquering Morocco in North Africa, which they saw as a stepping stone to control the gold trade. The age of Discovery was motivated by curiosity, a desire to expand into new places, a longing to spread Christianity, and especially, the Age of Discovery hoped to tap into the lucrative Far East trade, Europeans of the 15th and 16th centuries looked outward and began to explore their world. With the help of a local Portuguese navigator, da Gama and his ships made it across the Indian Ocean, reaching Calicut, India, in May 1498. Portuguese Da Gama's success opened the first water route to India from Europe, paving the way for a new era of global trade and colonialism.
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