I would say A.) They were more interested in exploring the world around them.
Answer:
helped stop other European nations from claiming territory.
Explanation:
In summary, the Virginia Company promoted the move to the newly found Americas by giving them land (after 1618) and increased possibility to earn money through the tobacco trade.
In the beginning of the age of discovery, England and France were looking for a new path to get to Asia to trade. But after they found the America’s and the West Indies, colonization for more for power. The more colonies each country could establish, the more power the country would have. A lot of the colonies were also making the home countries lots of money from the fur trade and from cash crops and from the Colombian exchange.
The achievements of the expedition included the European discovery of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander Islands, Bering Island, as well as a detailed cartographic assessment of the northern and north-eastern coast of Russia and the Kuril Islands.
