Why were europeans searching for direct route to india in modern history?
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-Mainly to avoid paying the Muslims.
India has had ancient trade networks with Europe that goes earlier than the Greek and Roman civilizations [as a part of the Tin trade]. Europeans have been visiting India for thousands of years and Indians have been doing the opposite trip.
While many Indians know that Europeans came to India, they don't know that the opposite happened too. There is the interesting story of Zarmanochegas - a Sramana philosopher sent by the Pandyan Kingdom of Tamil Nadu - who immolated himself in Athens 2000 years ago to prove his conviction to his philosophy. His tomb is still there in Greece. He and other philosophers brought Indian ideas to the West. This was instrumental in the development of Christianity [Buddhist influences on Christianity].
Here is how these trade routes looked like - blue ones based on water and red ones based on land.

By the end of the medieval era, all routes to India were passing over Muslim lands and you needed to trade with the Muslims. Turks, Arabs, Persians were sitting in both land and water routes. At the time of the Crusades and heavy Christian-Muslim tensions, paying to the Muslims was considered an anathema by some European rulers.
In short, it was not that Europeans were looking to trade with India. That trade was happening for thousands of years. What they were looking was for a trade route to India that would completely bypass the Muslims so that the Christians can stop paying their "enemies" to get Asian items.
Here is a simple way to remember this. Imagine that you have your uncle's house next to yours and the grandparent's house as the third one. You used to cross your uncle's place to get to your grandparent's candies. However, the uncle got quite menacing and didn't allow you to get to the candies any more. Thus, you had to sneak from the back of the house and discover a route to go all the way around so that you can avoid touching your uncle's property. Vasco da Gama and Columbus set out to find those routes. The former found that alternate, roundabout route to India [very inefficient to get to India], while the latter found something else completely.
u can read and can write in your own words
now the answer began ........
-Mainly to avoid paying the Muslims.
India has had ancient trade networks with Europe that goes earlier than the Greek and Roman civilizations [as a part of the Tin trade]. Europeans have been visiting India for thousands of years and Indians have been doing the opposite trip.
While many Indians know that Europeans came to India, they don't know that the opposite happened too. There is the interesting story of Zarmanochegas - a Sramana philosopher sent by the Pandyan Kingdom of Tamil Nadu - who immolated himself in Athens 2000 years ago to prove his conviction to his philosophy. His tomb is still there in Greece. He and other philosophers brought Indian ideas to the West. This was instrumental in the development of Christianity [Buddhist influences on Christianity].
Here is how these trade routes looked like - blue ones based on water and red ones based on land.

By the end of the medieval era, all routes to India were passing over Muslim lands and you needed to trade with the Muslims. Turks, Arabs, Persians were sitting in both land and water routes. At the time of the Crusades and heavy Christian-Muslim tensions, paying to the Muslims was considered an anathema by some European rulers.
In short, it was not that Europeans were looking to trade with India. That trade was happening for thousands of years. What they were looking was for a trade route to India that would completely bypass the Muslims so that the Christians can stop paying their "enemies" to get Asian items.
Here is a simple way to remember this. Imagine that you have your uncle's house next to yours and the grandparent's house as the third one. You used to cross your uncle's place to get to your grandparent's candies. However, the uncle got quite menacing and didn't allow you to get to the candies any more. Thus, you had to sneak from the back of the house and discover a route to go all the way around so that you can avoid touching your uncle's property. Vasco da Gama and Columbus set out to find those routes. The former found that alternate, roundabout route to India [very inefficient to get to India], while the latter found something else completely.
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i think Europeans were searching direct routes to India to trade because
India has very great in raw materials, tea leaves, cotton, spices and many other things which Europeans wanted to sell in their countries at higher prices and they want cotton for making clothes and selling because they don't have the availability of cotton in plenty amount
Mughals have blocked their route to India and were asking to pay to go to India but Europeans don't want waste their money so they were in search of alternate routes or direct routes to India
Hope it helps you dear....
i think Europeans were searching direct routes to India to trade because
India has very great in raw materials, tea leaves, cotton, spices and many other things which Europeans wanted to sell in their countries at higher prices and they want cotton for making clothes and selling because they don't have the availability of cotton in plenty amount
Mughals have blocked their route to India and were asking to pay to go to India but Europeans don't want waste their money so they were in search of alternate routes or direct routes to India
Hope it helps you dear....
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