<span>banks refused to lend to businesses</span>
Explanation:
Europeans during the Middle Ages had poor knowledge of geography (knew little about the outside world)
Beginning in the 1400's (15th century), western European nations (Portugal, Spain and then England, Holland and France) undertook expeditions to explore the Americas as well as new regions in Africa and Asia.
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