Europeans didn't use maritime routes before the age of exploration because they thought that Muslims controlling Portugal and Spain made maritime routes unsafe together with the fact that they didn't have the required transportation and navigation skills to travel.
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Either A or D bc on this article thing it says “Government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles too late especially Designated “Indian territory”.” but it also says after that “across the Mississippi river”
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