When merchants traveled between towns selling goods, they would have items from different places and cultures. The buyers of these merchants would be fascinated with the new items they had never seen before of different cultures, and so they would buy those items and spread them around until everybody knew about and became interested in other cultures. The cycle continued, causing more and more people to appreciate other cultures.
Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies.
The correct answer should be 1. East. They found a way to go through the Mediterranean sea into the Arabian Gulf and from there into the Indian Ocean, which allowed them to land on the eastern coast of Africa and establish trading stations for resting or reorganizing or fixing ships or things like that.
