1) The tales about India's and China's huge wealth spread all over Europe. So Europeans wanted to enjoy those, so they sat sail for India. Columbus credited with discovering America, actually wanted to go India, instead found way to America. The tales further spread after Marco Polo's writings.
2) During this time, new new inventions happened. Compass, sextant etc machines were in making journey to see more safe, previously ships generally sailed along cost side, after inventions of these they had courage to go into deep sea. During this time, technology in ship making, improved greatly, ships became more rugged, versatile and better.
3) Previously people believed earth is flat and of rectangular type, so it is impossible to set sail for deep sea. But scientists said hence Earth is round so if any one sat sail continuously from East to West, one day he will must come back from where he started. Columbus used this technic, he sailed from West Europe to further West, he believed hence Earth is round then one day he would either rich to India or or to that port from where he started.
The actions of the Ottoman Empire to close off the Silk Road/Route along which spices (deemed a necessity of life prior to refrigeration) were imported to Europe. Explorers first looked for a North East and a North West Passage to circumvent the Ottoman blockade. Something later named North America got in the way of ships attempting to cross directly from Western Europe to Eastern Asia by way of the ocean(s).
The Protestant Reformation which produced a number of groups classified as nonconformists. These people sought religious freedom.
A religious point of view which gave some the notion the 'New World' was a gift from God to use as a blank canvas on which to build a perfect utopian society (of course there were several ideas as to what such a perfect society would look like).
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1) The tales about India's and China's huge wealth spread all over Europe. So Europeans wanted to enjoy those, so they sat sail for India. Columbus credited with discovering America, actually wanted to go India, instead found way to America. The tales further spread after Marco Polo's writings.
2) During this time, new new inventions happened. Compass, sextant etc machines were in making journey to see more safe, previously ships generally sailed along cost side, after inventions of these they had courage to go into deep sea. During this time, technology in ship making, improved greatly, ships became more rugged, versatile and better.
3) Previously people believed earth is flat and of rectangular type, so it is impossible to set sail for deep sea. But scientists said hence Earth is round so if any one sat sail continuously from East to West, one day he will must come back from where he started. Columbus used this technic, he sailed from West Europe to further West, he believed hence Earth is round then one day he would either rich to India or or to that port from where he started.
The actions of the Ottoman Empire to close off the Silk Road/Route along which spices (deemed a necessity of life prior to refrigeration) were imported to Europe. Explorers first looked for a North East and a North West Passage to circumvent the Ottoman blockade. Something later named North America got in the way of ships attempting to cross directly from Western Europe to Eastern Asia by way of the ocean(s).
The Protestant Reformation which produced a number of groups classified as nonconformists. These people sought religious freedom.
A religious point of view which gave some the notion the 'New World' was a gift from God to use as a blank canvas on which to build a perfect utopian society (of course there were several ideas as to what such a perfect society would look like).