They wanted access to the recently built Suez Canal.
Explanation:
The Suez Canal is an important path way connecting the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Furthermore, tying Asia's economy to Europe through the waterway.Obviously it's importance is main that it cancels the travel by ship all the way round the continent of Africa.
It gives a short route to the European nations to travel to Egypt.It is a man made canal which connect Mediterranean sea to the Indian oceans and hence it is of strategic importance for establish trade link between Europe and Asia. It is the shortest route and avoids any ship to circumnavigate around the African continent to connect with Asia. It is located from ports of Mediterranean sea which is in Egypt to the city of Suez.
A slave that has been shipped from the island of Zanibar may have gone to Arabia.
1 answer Richard Henry Lee
2 answer Roger Sherman
3 answer unalienable
4 answer endowed
5 answer self evident
6 answer pursuit
North and south because think of it as longitude so long
IF over land....
They used covered wagons and traveled in trains
IF over sea...
They traveled around the cape horn in the earlier times, and in the later times...
They traveled through the Panama Canal