The Age of Exploration is a series of voyages during the 1400s, 1500s, and early 1600s when European explorers explored the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It began in Portugal, in the Iberian Peninsula to be exact. The overall cause of the exploration was the European desire to find ocean routes to East Asia/the Indies, the interest in spices, advancements in knowledge and technology, breaking the control that Muslims and Italians had on trade routes, and to spread Christianity. Some key figures included Prince Henry “The Navigator”, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, Pedro Cabral, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and more.
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<span>Early colonists in New Netherland were most interested in "trade" and mercantilism with either the Netherlands themselves or other European countries. </span><span />
Constantine's primary motivation in moving the capital to Byzantium was that "<span>a. It was a strategic site which linked the western empire with the increasingly wealthy east," since this was located directly between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. </span>
