Question

why did the European feel the need to discover a new sea route to India???? ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The Ottoman Turks charged Christian high fees to get through the route. Apart from this, the route was also unsafe due to the marauding bands of Tatar and the Mongols. Thus, the Europeans felt the need to discover new sea routes to India.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

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 happeningp 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

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