Trade helped bring about a period of exploration and colonization of lands across the seas.
Before the Muslim armies swept across much of Arabia, North Africa, South-Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Europeans were able to trade with Far Eastern Asia overland through the famed Silk Road.
The Christian Europeans needed a new route to Asia because:
- The Muslims now controlled the Silk road
- This was discovered in 1498 when Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found a way to get to India by going around Southern Africa.
This allowed the Europeans to trade in the East and encouraged them to embark on more voyages to seek new lands that they could trade with.
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