One of the drivers of European exploration in the 1400s and 1500s was the fact that Europeans sought new trade routes to eastern Asia - A, given the fact that the long used Silk road had been compromised by aggressive control over that area by the bloodthirsty Ottoman empire.
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The system of separation of powers divides the tasks of the state into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. These tasks are assigned to different institutions in such a way that each of them can check the others.