What primarily motivated European nations to finance voyages of exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

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Marianna Larsen

22 May, 02:55

What primarily motivated European nations to finance voyages of exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

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Atticus Nicholson · Answer 1

What primarily motivated European nations to finance voyages of exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were a desire for riches, knowledge, and power.

They thought they would find these things in those distant lands, so they offered their money to promote these explorations.