The European countries felt the necessity of finding new trade routes ti Asia
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The answer is that a number of things came together at the same time during the 16th and 17th centuries, which is when the sea routes really got going.
The first thing is that shipping technology around the coast of Europe improved immensely, driven by the reality that shipping in ships prior to rail land transport was then hugely cheaper than land transport.
The first sea routes were established to the Baltic, Morocco and the Mediterranean. By 1600 thousands of ships, some up to 500 tons, were plying their trade along the European coastline and innovations in rigging, hull design, navigation, armaments and so were happening all the time. We think of the modern era as innovative, but the period 1550 - 1650 saw sailing ships transform themselves.
The second thing that happened was that the new sea routes both west and east were extremely profitable. There's the obvious profit, like the Spanish shipping to America, but there was also the not so obvious profit, like the northern Europe shipping to the gigantic new fisheries found off North America. Then the Portugese found out how to get to the East around Africa and the Spanish found out also how to get to the East by sailing west. Of course, the more people exploited the new routes the more they invested in ships and new technology and associated businesses like joint stock companies and the more able they were to further develop their shipping.
Finally, as other answers have observed, traditional sources of supply came under pressure - but this only applied to trade to the East, and that was only part of the new shipping and sea route expansion.
So to answer the question, the Europeans were pursuing profit, and found that the new sea routes east west north and south would provide immense profit. Later they used those same sea routes to go out and build Empires but that's another story.
The first thing is that shipping technology around the coast of Europe improved immensely, driven by the reality that shipping in ships prior to rail land transport was then hugely cheaper than land transport.
The first sea routes were established to the Baltic, Morocco and the Mediterranean. By 1600 thousands of ships, some up to 500 tons, were plying their trade along the European coastline and innovations in rigging, hull design, navigation, armaments and so were happening all the time. We think of the modern era as innovative, but the period 1550 - 1650 saw sailing ships transform themselves.
The second thing that happened was that the new sea routes both west and east were extremely profitable. There's the obvious profit, like the Spanish shipping to America, but there was also the not so obvious profit, like the northern Europe shipping to the gigantic new fisheries found off North America. Then the Portugese found out how to get to the East around Africa and the Spanish found out also how to get to the East by sailing west. Of course, the more people exploited the new routes the more they invested in ships and new technology and associated businesses like joint stock companies and the more able they were to further develop their shipping.
Finally, as other answers have observed, traditional sources of supply came under pressure - but this only applied to trade to the East, and that was only part of the new shipping and sea route expansion.
So to answer the question, the Europeans were pursuing profit, and found that the new sea routes east west north and south would provide immense profit. Later they used those same sea routes to go out and build Empires but that's another story.
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Even though, English, Spain Portugal and French had different motivation for starting an exploration at some point, their motivation seems similar.
They were all similarly indulged in the search of Northwest passage which they believe that would bring good fortune, might some sort of fortune teller effect.
They wanted to find the orient, Asian culture and tradition through the Northwest passage. They believed that the orient is the home of spices, wealth and silk.
Also they wanted to expand their lands.
Apart from the Portugal, French and English, Spanish explorers started their expedition in search of El Dorado, the city of gold also to spread Christianity.
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