this is an OPINION based question. but i will give you MY personal opinion. but i dunno how it will help, its YOUR opinion NOT MINE.
my opinion:
i think it was a complex period, but very helpful in many ways. there are pros and cons to it, but the many changes lead to this modern day period. some things may have happened that may have lead to bad paths, but this period was greatly effective to our present days. so i think that this complicated period was helpful, and worth what happened in it.
The answer is really self explanatory. Rationing food allowed them to get through out the war without having to worry about the amount of food supply they had.
The correct answers are "the need for new trade routes to the East, competition between European countries, and the desire to spread Christanity.
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<em>The statements that accurately describes the major motivations for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries were the need for new trade routes to the East, competition between European countries, and the desire to spread Christanity. </em>
European countries such as Spain and Portugal were important nations that initiated with the age of exploration. Their monarchies sent explorers to sail the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to discover new routes to the Indias and eventually they arrived to America, the new continent. That is why the statements that accurately describes the major motivations for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries were the need for new trade routes to the East, competition between European countries, and the desire to spread Christanity.
C, these 3 men all founded colonies