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Why hadn’t Europeans used maritime routes before the age of exploration?

Why hadn’t Europeans used maritime routes before the age of exploration?
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Why hadn’t Europeans used maritime routes before the age of exploration?

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Europeans didn't use maritime routes before the age of exploration because they feared that the muslims controlling Portugal and Spain made maritime routes unsafe together with the fact that they didn't have the required ships and navigations skills to travel around Africa to Asia
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They didn’t have the ships and navigation skills to travel around Africa to Asia.

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