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It was the reason why some country's explored because they wanted to be the best.

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Glory is competition to become the most powerful.

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Spain and Portugal competed for land in the new world.

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Multiple European country's began exploring to compete for land and power.

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The desire of Europeans to spread there culture and beliefs.

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God is Europeans spreading Christianity around the world.

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Europeans converted natives in the new world which caused central and south America to today be mainly Christian today.

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Europeans tried to convert Asia to Christianity this caused them to shut there ports.

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The high demand of raw materials made explorers motivated to find new routes to access these raw materials.

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European countries realized they could capitalize off of the new raw materials they were finding in the New World that were now in demand because they weren't found anywhere else.

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Due to Europeans desire for gold in the new world they needed slave labor.

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Because of Europeans want for spices from the east they searched for new water routes to get to India. Going around the Ottoman empire.