Answer:The silk road was mostly over land and took merchants a great deal of time to ship goods. European countries were interested in speeding up trade by finding a quicker sea route....The final reason for why the Age of Exploration began is because Europeans of the time were intrested in foreign cultures and goods.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the United States government emphasized neutrality, decreased the size of the military, and refrained from joining the League of Nations.
