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To understand why Europeans began to explore one must first look back nearly 1000 years before the Renaissance when the Roman Empire split into its Eastern and Western Empires. While the Eastern Empire carried on, the Western Empire collapsed. Before its division and collapse, the Roman Empire had a very complicated trading network with the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This meant that the Romans had an economy that had access to many resources.
In addition to trade, Rome also was "rich" in cultural activities. If one looks past their militaristic qualities, citizens of ancient Rome made many contributions in the areas of art, science, technology, and politics. Rome had many schools, and learning and the spread of ideas was valued.
There was a point in the history when the Roman Empire stopped expanding. One reason the empire stopped expanding was because it had grown so large that one emperor could not control and protect the empire in times of emergency. When this expansion stopped, resources stopped coming into The Empire. This lack of resources, and other problems, caused internal conflicts that led to civil war. The
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Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy into a merchant family. In 1271, Marco set out with his father and uncle on a journey, along the Silk Road which was an ancient trade route from Rome to China. Marco Polo recorded the details of his journeys in a book titled, The Description of the World. This book was read by many Europeans and was, for a long time, the only account Europeans had of lands such as China and India. Polo’s detailed descriptions of the lands, people, animals, and luxury goods encouraged Europeans to increase trade with these distant lands.
Faced with barriers to trade such as war, high costs, and imbalanced trade, Europeans began to seek alternate trade routes to Asia. Instead of using the Italians as middle-men, and risking their lives traveling through war-torn Middle East, some Europeans considered finding new sea routes around the coasts of Africa or even west across the Ocean Sea. As you will soon learn, people such as Henry the Navigator, and Christopher Columbus were two of the many Europeans that sought new, less expensive trade routes. You can also see that the reasons that Europeans began to explore are c
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