Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, gold, and glory. Europeans also searched for optimal trade routes to lucrative Asian markets and hoped to gain global recognition for their country.
Explanation:
Motives for Exploration For early explorers, one of the primary motives for exploration was the desire to establish new trade routes to Asia. By the 1400s, merchants and Crusaders had brought numerous goods to Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
