The answer is : Trying to make money by trading with the world .
Answer:
Sugar Cane and Exotic foods
Explanation:
The Sugar cane market that produced sugar was extremely valuable to Europeans. They even nicknamed the substance, "white gold." Eventually, slave plantations would be made to produce mass amounts of sugar for Europeans. Foods like Potatoes and Corn had also been introduced to Europeans during the discovery of the New World. This had been demanded more during the Columbian Exchange and eventually lost market when Europeans started to grow their own food originated from the Americas.
In case you need another: Spices were demanded in Europe that came from mainly Central America.
I know one of the answers are "the fingers of the wool pluckers would be eaten by the acid that was used to loosen the wool and pulled off by bare hands"
But I am not sure what the other two are, if you get them please let me know.
The answer is the ottoman Empire.
Because of the country's strong presence on the water with its ships and naval command.