I feel like “The voyages were risky, and there was no insurance to cover the risk” is the answer. Investors didn’t want to lose money and the only way that they would somehow break even on the cost would be if the voyage found riches.
<span>The official language of the Ottoman Empire as set by the Young Turks was (Ottoman) Turkish. The Ottoman Empire encompassed today's Turkey, so obviously the language spoken there is going to be Turkish. The Turkish language belongs to the group of Turkic languages, along with Kazakh, Uzbek, and 30ish other languages, some of which are extinct today.</span>
Rain was unpredictable, and the soil was difficult to plow.
