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·more and more things started encouraging exploitation
·new geographical thoughts started coming out
·schools for navagation opened.

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·many countries started to send crew men out to claim new territories
·they would set up colonys and settlements when arriving.

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·Europeans needed trade with Africans because of their many valuable resources.
·africas main three trading sorces were silk (tusks), gold, and slaves
·tribes would capture any enemy at war and sell him as a slave to the Europeans.

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·people's demands for asian spices were increasing
·since there was way more demands than spice, the prices went up
·if they had the spices they would make a good buck off of them.

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·Europeans were trying to spread Christianity to beat the Muslims in the race to make their religion dominate.