People were able to get to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean quicker the having to go down to South America. Does that make since?
To allow the natural downward flow of water to irrigate a large amount of land without needing to be transported from one crop plot to another.
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Answer:
global market opportunities
Explanation:
Most European explorers of the 1400s, like Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan, were sailors working either for private merchant companies, or for nation states seeking new trade opportunities.
For example, Columbus sailed west looking for a new sea route from Europe to Asia, since communications between the two continents had been made difficult by Ottoman dominance over the Eastern Mediterranean, and Persian dominance over Central Asia. Columbus, in fact, died without having realized that he had landed in the Americas.
Explanation: To generate fear and frustration within the civilian population. They want to hurt and cause as much trouble as possible.
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