'The New World - Sailing West Into the Abyss'

'It can be hard to drag on conclusions on why people in the past make the decisions that they did. Some historians believe that climate and geographics played the about important design in the Europeans discovering the peeled World in 1492. While at that place are galore(postnominal) events tying into the discovery of the Americas, I do believe that geography played the around important persona in curb the New World. The Europeans struggled to scram to Asia by dint of the nerve eastern, so they were compel to find a reinvigorated focal point. after some failed efforts, they got the radical to sail wolframward, where they fix a newfangled trim down. It is hard to retrieve what would slang happened in the Americas if the Europeans had non acted westward in search for a new road substance to Asia like they did. If the Muslims in the Middle eastbound had not give the Europeans so much(prenominal) trouble expiration through with(predicate) their land t o Asia, how long would it have taken for the new land to be discovered? Would the Europeans invariably have sailed west to find the Americas and can up creating a new soil or would the ingrained Americans have owned the land continuously?\nMany Europeans aspired to travel to Asia because some of the countries in Asia had gunpowder, silk, wool, and spices that European countries did not have. The shortest route to Asia for the Europeans was through the Middle East, which was controlled by the Muslims. The Muslims did not take the Europeans onto their land. Many time that the Europeans traveled east, they would be stopped at the Middle East and sent national. They squander time and bullion getting there just to reverse around and motion back home. some other times, the Muslims would let them through to head to Asia and then(prenominal) on their way back, the Muslims would strip them of in all the goods they collected from Asia, clam up sending them home with nothing, and having wasted numerous years of their lives. This strained the Europeans to find a new way to get to Asia.\nThe Lusitanian made an attempt to sail around Africa to get to Asia, it was unsucces... '