Sea Routes to Asia

After Marco Polo returned with golds, silvers, and all sorts of treasures, and spices the
need to trade with the East was unbearable. Practiclly every European in Europe was trying to
find ways to get to Asia and India to trade for the riches of the East. Marco Polo had traveled to
Asia by land, and this took time and money because of its long journey. They needed food for the
large caravans and needed men willing to head towards Asia. So this caused some countries not
to be able to trade with Asia. Since Marco Polo was an Italian, the Italians thought that they had a
monopoly on the tradi…