Answer:
A) It facilitated cultural exchange between Asia and the Middle East.
Explanation:
This answer makes the most sense because the Silk Road was the main reason why there was cultural exchange between these two regions.
Judaism and Islam did not spread from China to other regions, in fact Judaism originated in Israel while Islam originated in Saudi Arabia.
D makes absolutely no sense because there's an ocean between these continents, and the silk road was definitely not a water-way trade route.
Answer:
c) try to find new trade routes to Africa and Asia
Explanation:
Finding new trade routes to Africa and Asia is a good way to gain a competitive advantage over other European, rival states. This in fact what Portugal first, and later Spain, did during the later years of the 1400s.
The motivation was that the Ottoman Empire controlled the Eastern Mediterranean, and this prevented Western European nations from trading with East Asia and the Middle East with ease.
Portugal opted to look for new routes around Africa, and the Indian Ocean, while Spain decided to look for a new route throught the west, which led to the arrival of Columbus in the Americas in 1492.
The Olmec culture of the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
