During the fifteenth-century, Europeans weren't just out to search for a sea route to Asia, they had to search for one since the Ottoman Turks controlled the Silk Road, which was the main land route from Europe through the Middle East to Asia. Europeans had began to demand valuable goods such as silk and spices that could only be found in Asia since it has been quite useful to their daily living. Of course, in turn, European merchants had manufactured goods to sell in Asia for those valuable goods such as silk and spices, but when the land route wasn't available and safe anymore, they had to search for sea routes.
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Electoral votes assigned to each state
The president clemency power can only be used in cases of state offenses
Well, it's either referring to Muscovy or Novgorod, probably Moscovy.
Cultural diffusion is the spread of culture from one area to another for example the spread of Islam. Today cultural diffusion is a simpler process due to technological advancements such as the internet, but in the past cultural diffusion happened mainly when people traveled to other countries.